Tag: Robert Rosen

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 30, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, intelligent design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum}

No. 3 Story for 2025: Immaterial Genome Is Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

_{Ann Gauger
December 30, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, structure, What Is Life?}

In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 2, 2025

Biology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, artifacts, artwork, axes, biology, causality, chairs, DNA, E.O. Wilson, emergence, enzymes, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, final causality, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonard Susskind, Life Itself, Ludwig Wittgenstein, machines, mechanics, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, rockets, science of purpose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Hawking, structure-function relationship, telos, Theodosius Dobzhansky, tools, William Dembski, windmills}

What Is the Originating Source of Design in Organisms?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 17, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

9}

The genesis of structure-function relationships in human artifacts is as well understood as are their mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, chicken, Claude Shannon, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Essays on Life Itself, genome, information, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, junk DNA, Levinthal paradox, Life Itself, logos, Michael Levin, nature, Neoplatonism, Peter Tompa, physical world, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, snails, Walter Elsasser, yeast}

A Diffident Revolutionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

10}

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, intelligent design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum}

The Immaterial Genome: Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

_{Ann Gauger
May 12, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, 23andMe, Amazon, archaeology, Brown University, Columbia University, David Klinghoffer, dementia, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, genome, Greek, Greeks, humans, immaterial genome, journalism, Latin, Los Angeles, National Review, Orthodox Judaism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Robert Rosen, whales, William F. Buckley Jr., yeast}

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

7}

All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, David Klinghoffer, heredity, intelligent design, Life Itself, Plato's Revenge, providence, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Stephen J. Iacoboni}

In the Conventional Genetic Paradigm, “Something Is Missing, Something Big”

_{Science & Culture
May 2, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

2}

"David Klinghoffer masterfully chronicles Richard Sternberg’s decades-long search to fill the void articulated by Robert Rosen." Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

11}

This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›