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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, body, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, earth, explanatory power, Heaven, John Dewey, Joshua Farris, Karl Marx, matter, mind, modus tollens, On the Origin of Species, personhood, Plato, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud, soul, Thomas Aquinas}

What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 27, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
June 5, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotelianism, curriculum, DiscoveryU, geocentrism, material world, philosophers, Plato, Ptolemaic system, Pythagoras, rationality, scientific revolution}

Let’s Explore How Cosmology Influenced Christianity

_{Melissa Cain Travis
June 5, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Mathematics

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Many centuries prior to the rise of modern science, the philosophers of antiquity recognized the inherent rationality of the natural word. Read More ›

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Author
Logan Paul Gage

Date
April 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, atomists, Benjamin Wiker, Church Fathers, Democritus, Douglas Axe, Epicurus, evolution, God's Grandeur, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, New Atheists, Plato, Robin Collins, Roman Catholic, Scopes Monkey Trial, Scripture, Socrates, Stephen Meyer, stereotypes, William Lane Craig}

Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

_{Logan Paul Gage
April 24, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, evolution, Francisco Ayala, Hippocrates, intelligent design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology}

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 9, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 16, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Ecology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alasdair MacIntyre, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, creation, Democritus, energy production, error correction, imago Dei, information processing, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Tour, materialism, molecules, natural law, Plato, Pope Francis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientific revolution, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, stewardship, teleology, University of Notre Dame}

Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
November 16, 2022

Cosmology, Ecology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›

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Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, Cicero, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, DNA, eugenics, evolution, George Gaylord Simpson, Giuseppe Sermonti, intelligent design, Islam, jesus, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Marco Respinti, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Plato, Pope Benedict XVI, Psalms, Racism, software, St. Paul, Stephen Meyer, The Magician's Twin}

The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer

_{Science & Culture
November 10, 2022

Bioethics, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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"ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, Edward Feser, eternity, God Hypothesis, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, infinity, Jerry Coyne, numbers, Plato, Platonic forms, solar system, St. Augustine, sun, theism, universals}

Mathematics and the God Hypothesis

_{Michael Egnor
August 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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There is a classical proof of God’s existence that uses universal concepts such as mathematics, proposed most prominently by St. Augustine. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, bioengineering, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley}

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

_{Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›