Tag: rational thought

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, carbon-silicon bonds, cells, cytochrome c, directed evolution, enzyme, Frances Arnold, Hendrik F. T. Klare, homochirality, Iceland, intelligent design, Martin Oestreich, materialists, microbes, molecules, natural, New Scientist, pharmaceuticals, polymers, rational thought, Science (journal), semiconductors, silicon, unnatural}

Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 13, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canceled Science, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, Eric Hedin, faith and science, free will, human evil, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural evil, podcast, rational thought, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 13, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Says Dr. Hedin, "We live in a world where the second law of thermodynamics applies not just to stars and mountainsides but also to our own bodies.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, act, adults, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, baby, genius, gestation, human being, Jerry Coyne, life, possibilities, potency, rational thought, soul, Thomistic philosophy, zygote}

Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons?

_{Michael Egnor
May 16, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, C.H. Waddington, calculations, Darwin on Trial, Darwin-skeptics, Darwinists, David Berlinski, evidence, evolution, Michael Denton, micromutations, organisms, organs, Peter Medawar, Philadelphia, Phillip E. Johnson, rational thought, Wistar Symposium}

Wistar: Been There, Done That

_{David Klinghoffer
November 8, 2018

Evolution, Mathematics

5}

Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
September 18, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, beauty, brain, C.S. Lewis, chimpanzees, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, emotions, Jane Goodall, love, mastodons, nerve cells, perception, poetry, rational thought, soul, University of Pennsylvania}

Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New

_{Ann Gauger
September 18, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology

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Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought. Read More ›