Knowles-Meyer Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 26, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignLinguistics Tagged , Africa, atheists, authority, clicks, consonants, cultures, Darwinian evolution, declensions, documentary, evolutionary theory, human exceptionalism, Khoisan languages, language, leftists, Michael Knowles, Noam Chomsky, primates, primitive, priors, Return of the God Hypothesis, sophistication, Stephen Meyer, technology, tenses, The Story of Everything, tongue Meyer, Knowles: The Evolutionary Mystery of Language David Klinghoffer April 26, 2026 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics 4 If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages. Read More ›
pia11777orig Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date March 11, 2026 CategoriesCosmologyPhysics Tagged , Alex O’Connor, Aristotelian cosmos, Copernican displacement, cosmic enormity, cosmic scale, cosmology, Dante, demotion, divine hiddenness, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Hell, human centrality, intelligent cause, intelligibility, methodology, motivation, natural philosophy, naturalism, posteriors, priors, promotion, Psalms, Robert B. Stewart, Satan, scientific revolution, Scripture, Sean Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, Timothy McGrew, universe Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered Bruce Gordon March 11, 2026 Cosmology, Physics 9 My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›
hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date February 18, 2026 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignPhysics Tagged , Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers” Bruce Gordon February 18, 2026 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics 11 Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument. Read More ›
