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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, Genesis, genome, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, atoms, Bible, Boltzmann brain, Donald Trump, dragons, Elie Feder, life, measure problem, molecules, physical constants, physical laws, Physics to God, planets, quantum fluctuations, rivers, Roger Penrose, stars, universe}

The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem

_{Brian Miller
January 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2024

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thinking, anthropology, Aristotle, behavior, Big Think, consciousness, evolution, human mind, human origins, neuroscientists, panpsychism, Roger Penrose, Stone Age}

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial life, cells, Daniel Witt, Denis Noble, genome, ID the Future, information, Justin Brierley, life, logos, matter, mind, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, Stephen Meyer, The Selfish Gene, William Lane Craig}

Listen: Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Brierley talks with thinkers whom you don’t regularly see in direct dialogue, from Stephen Meyer to Denis Noble to Roger Penrose to Paul Davies. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 26, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, alien life, astrobiologists, extra-terrestrial intelligence, faith, galaxy, intelligent design, Occam's Razor, Paul Davies, Roger Penrose, stars}

The Conviction that ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 26, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

The usual practice in science would rule out mundane explanations first. But clearly, that is a road not taken. Read More ›

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Date
May 25, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bill Gates, Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, ID the Future, Nobel laureates, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

_{Science & Culture
May 25, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, asteroids, brains, consciousness, evolution, genes, mind, Murchison meteorite, philosophers, Roger Penrose, scientists, solar system}

Consciousness BEFORE Life? These Scientists Say Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 14, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

One key way life differs from non-life is that life forms have goals. For example, the amoeba seeks to protect itself. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, biomolecules, Brian Keating, Closer to Truth, dark energy, dark matter, Discovery Institute, disinformation, evidence, homochirality, intelligent design, James Tour, Justin Brierley, living cells, natural processes, particle physics, RNA, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Science Daily, stars, Stephen Meyer, universe}

From Scientists and Science Media, a Flood of Disinformation

_{Eric Hedin
April 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Spending time perusing popular science media outlets can give one the impression that much of science is on the verge of being overturned. Read More ›