Tag: Pythagoras

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 24, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, athens, biology, C.S. Lewis, change over time, Democritus, DNA, dynamis, eidos, energeia, evolution, From Logos to Bios, George Gaylord Simpson, H. B. Whittington, Heraclitus, history, Jerusalem, Leucippus, Lev Berg, Malcolm Gordon, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nomogenesis, philosophy, Pierre-Paul Grassé, Plato, Plotinus, potentiality, Pythagoras, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, tautology, Tertullian, The Selfish Gene, universal common descent, Western thought, Wynand de Beer}

Biology (and Cosmology) as Footnotes to Plato: A Review of Wynand de Beer

_{Michael Flannery
February 24, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Philosophy

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An important book by Wynand de Beer recaptures the wisdom of the ages and puts it into service not only of science, but of history, philosophy, and religion. Read More ›

Thought processes emotional intelligence are rendered through symbolic pathways that meticulously trace the minds inner workings

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biobots, cosmology, development, embryos, engineering, fine-tuning, human body, hybrots, machines, mathematicians, measure problem, Michael Levin, minds, multiverse, optimality, Pavlovian conditioning, personal agent, Plato, Platonic forms, Platonic ideas, Platonic patterns, Pythagoras, Richard Sternberg, scientific investigation, Tufts University, Ultimate Engineering, universe}

Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin

_{Brian Miller
February 18, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, physicians, Plato, poison, Pythagoras, Socrates, Stoics, The Republic}

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

_{Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

13}

Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago}

The War on 2 + 2 = 4

_{William A. Dembski
April 8, 2024

Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education

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The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 2, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", diffusion, Evolution News, formalism, Galileo Galilei, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, mechanics, Michael Behe, natural law, naturalists, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Pythagoras, science of purpose, scientific atheists, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics, William A. Dembski}

Is Natural Law Irreducible?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 2, 2024

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility. 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
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apologetics, Aristotle, Christianity, creationism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, faith, Islam, Martin Luther, Muslims, Plato, Protestantism, Pythagoras, Richard Dawkins, scientific establishment, secularization, theology}

Muslims Should Be Natural Allies of Intelligent Design

_{Robert Shedinger
February 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I have been invited to speak at many Islamic Centers throughout the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, intelligent design, Melissa Cain Travis, naturalism, Pythagoras, Science and the Mind of the Maker, theism, YouTube videos}

Melissa Cain Travis: Explaining the Uncanny “Cosmic Resonance” of Mathematics

_{David Klinghoffer
October 14, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy

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Travis considers the history of Western thinking from Pythagoras and the pre-Socratic philosophers to Philo of Alexandria and onward. Read More ›