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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, carbon, Charles Darwin, Cyanobacteria, Dr. Pangloss, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, metazoans, meteorites, Michael Denton, natural selection, optimization, Paul Davies, purpose, quantum mechanics, satire, The Miracle of the Cell, Voltaire, wonder}

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

_{Rob Sheldon
October 1, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›

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Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, AAA proteins, allostery, amino acids, assembly, coevolution, cytoplasm, dynein, molecular machines, nucleolus, PNAS, polymerization, proteins, quantum mechanics, Ribosome, RNA, Rockefeller University}

Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control

_{Science and Culture
August 27, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, academia, artificial intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Center for Science and Culture, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, free will, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, John West, lockdown, media, Michael Egnor, mind, quantum mechanics, Robert J. Marks II, science, scientists, universe, Walter Bradley Center, webinar}

Free Webinar, May 16: Compliant or Critical? Scientific Authority in the Age of COVID-19

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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“Follow the science!” we’re told. “Listen to the scientists!” Should we submit to such calls, or insist on thinking for ourselves? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 8, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, economics, Europe, experts, Frank Bruni, mind, New York Times, public health, quantum mechanics, Richard Feynman, Science, Texas Tech, universe, World Health Organization, Wuhan}

The Science Guild’s Mask Is Falling Off

_{Michael Egnor
May 8, 2020

Medicine

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Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman quipped that “science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, A Fortunate Universe, Al Gore, Big Science, bombing, Cambridge University, Christianity, climate change, Frank Tipler, Freeman Dyson, Gifford lectures, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize, pantheism, physicists, Politics, quantum mechanics, religion, Scotland, space travel, string theory, Templeton Prize, theology, Trinity College, universe, war, William Happer, World War II}

Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, astrophysicist, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Darwinian evolution, Ethan Siegel, evidence, evidentialism, Five Ways, general relativity, heresy, inference, inferential science, information, logic, natural theology, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Ontological Argument, properly basic belief, quantum mechanics, reason, red shift, Stephen Jay Gould, theists, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?

_{Michael Egnor
January 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order. Read More ›

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Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, black holes, metric tensor, Natalie Wolchover, Nobel Prize, Paul Dirac, Quanta Magazine, quantum mechanics, Shakespearean sonnet, Steven Weinberg, University of Amsterdam}

Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

_{Science and Culture
December 11, 2019

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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What is inevitable here is not the mathematical beauty of physical law, but the circumlocutions scientists use to evade design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, essential causal chain, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

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Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, cosmological arguments, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, Parmenides, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum indeterminacy, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg}

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 4, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Biocomplexity and Teleology in Nature, conference, cosmic fine-tuning, creationism, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, materialism, nature, neo-Darwinian mechanism, quantum mechanics, Siegfried Scherer, symposium, teleology, Zentrum für BioKomplexität & NaturTeleologie}

Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?

_{Günter Bechly
June 4, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible. Read More ›