Tag: rockets

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, artifacts, artwork, axes, biology, cats' claws, causality, chairs, conveyances, cups, DNA, dwellings, E.O. Wilson, emergence, enzymes, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, final causality, Francis Bacon, human artifacts, 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, randomness-selection hypothesis, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, rockets, science of purpose, Sir Martin Rees, spoons, 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

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

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, abstraction, aeronautics, airflow, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, arches, Aristotle, balloons, biology, bird wings, black-body radiation, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, footballs, formalisms, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, parachutes, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, pistons, propellers, pulleys, radiators, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function dualism, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?, wing}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, butterflies, butterfly wings, Darwinians, dead leaf butterfly, dung spiders, evolution, false heads, five percent solution, foresight, hind wing, insects, intelligent design, lycaenid butterflies, orchids, plants, preplanning, rockets, self-protection, spacecraft, spiders, walking leaf insects, walking stick insects}

For Darwinism, Here Is the Problem with Butterfly Mimicry

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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The usual explanation we hear is that the butterflies, spiders, plants, etc., “evolved this way in order to” survive predators. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, earth, exoplanets, fuel, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, NASA, rockets, solar system, space travel, super-earths, The Privileged Planet}

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

_{Casey Luskin
May 13, 2020

Physical Sciences

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A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 16, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Abraham Loeb, atmosphere, BIO-Complexity, distance, Hubble Space Telescope, hydrogen, interstellar dust, Milky Way, Neptune, oxygen, rockets, satellite TV, solar system, space travel, super-earths, The Privileged Planet, Uranus}

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 16, 2020

Physical Sciences

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I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Read More ›