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post

Date
March 9, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Higgs Boson, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, Large Hadron Collider, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, Reductionism}

“Miraculously” Fine-Tuned Universe? Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider

_{Science & Culture
March 9, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The continued spookiness of the fine-tuning of the interactions in the universe is a constant threat to materialism. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, emergence, evolutionary mechanism, intelligent design, Michael Behe, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, Systems Biology}

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Woese, Charles Darwin, eukaryotic cells, Freeman Dyson, Jerry Coyne, Linnean Society, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, prokaryotic cells, Reductionism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen}

When Darwinian Evolution Became Obsolete

_{Michael Flannery
May 3, 2021

Evolution

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled to a poorly attended and generally inattentive audience at a Linnean Society meeting. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 31, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, artistry, Benjamin Wiker, carbon, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Phillip E. Johnson, Reductionism, scientific enterprise}

Jonathan Witt: A Cosmos Charged with Meaning, Purpose — and Genius

_{Science & Culture
January 31, 2021

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The late Phillip Johnson called Dr. Witt's book from InterVarsity Press “a wise and witty romp through the fallacies of reductionism.” Read More ›

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post

Date
November 22, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, Declaration of Independence, human rights, ID the Future, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, PETA, podcast, Reductionism, The War on Humans, Wesley Smith}

Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?

_{Science & Culture
November 22, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights. Read More ›

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post

Date
October 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, causation, ID the Future, materialism, Michael Denton, origins science, podcast, Privileged Species, Reductionism}

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

_{Science & Culture
October 24, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 31, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropology, archeology, BioLogos, Brown University, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, Deborah Haarsma, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Modern Synthesis, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Reductionism, teleology, The Descent of Man, The World of Life}

Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition

_{Science & Culture
August 31, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Reductionism, Veritas Forum, William A. Dembski}

Phillip E. Johnson: Awaking a Sleeping Giant

_{Michael Flannery
November 5, 2019

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Part of his brilliance was in recognizing that an appropriate challenge to the reductionisms of our age required a thoroughly multidisciplinary approach. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, biologic institute, Homo sapiens, John Elof Boodin, natural selection, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, teleology, vitalism}

Who Was Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 26, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Bertalanffy’s systems-based approach continued under George Klir, and is carried on today by Dr. Richard Sternberg, who studied under Klir. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 6, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, evolution, Facebook Live, intelligent design, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, theoretical biology}

Chatting with Biologist Richard Sternberg About a Formative Intellectual Experience

_{David Klinghoffer
December 6, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Sternberg described an encounter with theoretical biologist Robert Rosen and his work. Read More ›