Tag: Plato’s Revenge

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle's Revenge, biology, complementarity, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, dispositionalism, Edward Feser, emergence, Etienne Gilson, final causality, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, Günter Bechly, immaterial agency, Lex Fridman, mathematics, metaphysics, Michael Levin, MIT Press, naturalism, necessity, ontology, origin of life, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, purpose, Richard Sternberg, science of purpose, specified irreducible complexity, substances, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, Tufts University}

Science, Purpose, and Michael Levin: The Discussion Evolves

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A leading spiritually agnostic (at least, that is my impression) biology researcher, Michael Levin at Tufts, is himself a proponent of teleology in nature. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, consciousness, Daily Mail, David Klinghoffer, life after death, Maria Strømme, near-death experiences, panpsychism, physicists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Hawking, telepathy, terminal lucidity, Thomas Henry Huxley, universal field, universe, Uppsala University, William Hunter}

According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2025

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, animals, atheists, cellular operations, Christie’s, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetic isolation, genetics, history, Human Zoos, humans beings, information, intelligence, intelligent design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, Maurice Wilkins, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism}

For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

_{David Klinghoffer
November 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

6}

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, Amazon, Audio (Amazon service), audiobooks, Bible, Blackstone Publishing, books, Christians, circuitry, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, evolution, faith and science, genetics, genome, immaterial genome, intelligent agent, intelligent design, John West, law, medicine, molecular machinery, non-Christians, Plato's Revenge, Politics, religion, reviews, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Stockholm Syndrome Christian}

New Audiobooks by John West, David Klinghoffer Available Now

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Speaking of Amazon, we follow the reviews there, and it’s always welcome to see what readers have to say. I’ll share the top review of each book respectively. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ABC, cancel culture, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Charlie Kirk, climate, climate change, comedians, Elsevier journals, entertainment industry, evolution, evolutionary biologists, ideological differences, ideology, Jerry Coyne, Jimmy Kimmel, journals, lawsuits, Marcel Crok, peer-reviewed articles, physicists, Plato's Revenge, predictions, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, ratings, researchers, Richard Sternberg, Sabine Hossenfelder, settled science, skepticism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix}

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025

Environment & Climate, Scientific Freedom

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In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Arts
Biology
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biochemists, cell phones, computers, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrical engineering, electromagnetic noise, engineering, Erwin Chargaff, flute, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, life, Life Is a Miracle, organisms, Plato's Revenge, programming, radios, Richard Sternberg, smart phones, Stephen Iacoboni, technology, televisions, violin, violinist, Wendell Berry, Wi-Fi, William Shakespeare}

Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

_{Eric Hedin
September 4, 2025

Arts, Biology, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Tagged
, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, blueprint, Book of Mormon, canon, Christianity, civilization, culture, DNA, extraterrestrials, genetic information, genome, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Holy Bible, human being, Human Genome Project, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Islam, Israelites, Judaism, Martin Luther, medicine, National Institutes of Health, New Testament, Old Testament, Orthodox Judaism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Protestantism, punctuation, Quran, religion, Richard Sternberg, Roman Catholic Church, Scripture, species, vowels}

The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics

5}

Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, Aristotle, atheists, bifurcation, children, Christian civilization, Christians, civilization, Emma Camp, Evangelicals, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason Magazine, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, surgical sexual mutilation, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, tradcath, wokeness}

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2025

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 30, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blue jeans, body type, Brian Miller, David Klinghoffer, DNA, earth, eugenics, genes, genetic predisposition, genetics, genome, Heaven, humor, information, intelligent, jeans, Kara Kennedy, material genome, mathematics, Michael Levin, philosophy, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, race, Richard Sternberg, Spencer Klavan, Sydney Sweeney, The Free Press, white supremacy}

With Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Genes,” Plato Exacts His Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
July 30, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If I had no sense of humor whatsoever about the whole thing, I would point out that the nature of “genes” is the subject of a fascinating scientific dispute. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common ancestor, common ancestry, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, DNA, Erika DeBenedictis, evolution, gap divergence, genetic similarity, gibbon, Gone with the Wind, gorillas, Gutsick Gibbon, human origins, humans, intelligent design, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Administration, YouTube videos}

As Luskin Debunks 1 Percent Myth, Evolutionists Fire Wildly in Response

_{David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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The myth matters because a toxic lie being advanced in our culture denies the exceptional status of human beings in nature. Many evils follow from that denial. Read More ›