Tag: simplicity

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, americans, aneurysm, assisted suicide, atheism, brain, castration, child sacrifice, Christianity, culture, Denyse O’Leary, euthanasia, Heaven, immateriality, immortality, infinity, logic, materialism, materialists, mathematics, media, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgery, paganism, Pam Reynolds, Pam Reynolds Challenge, philosophy, physics, pornography, precision, sexual grooming, sexual mutilation, simplicity, St. Augustine, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, surgeons, The Immortal Mind, tunnel, Western civilization}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Near-Death Experiences and Saving the Culture

_{John Zmirak
September 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a huge and complex topic. Tens of millions of people have had NDEs and similar spiritual experiences." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, academic freedom, alchemy, commitment, ether, faith, faith and science, hypocrisy, Institute for Advanced Study, intellectual humility, obedience, overconfidence, phlogiston, phrenology, Roman Catholic, sacred cows, science and religion, simplicity, Swarthmore College, theory}

Science, Faith, and Einstein

_{William A. Dembski
June 20, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Einstein’s dictum about thinking for yourself therefore holds for faith as much as for science. It must come before commitment and obedience. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, actuators, appendix, biological systems, biomimicry, blood, engineered systems, human eye, intelligent design, junk DNA, muscles, organisms, simplicity, skin, Stuart C. Burgess}

Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

_{Emily Reeves
October 25, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Charles Darwin, complexity, DNA, electricity, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), grass, James Clerk Maxwell, living systems, Ludwig Boltzmann, magnetism, mountains, oak tree, oceans, proteins, RNA, rocks, sand, Second Law of Thermodynamics, simplicity, soil, sugars}

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, fitness function, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replicase, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, Sol Spiegelman, spaces, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, unwashed middle, variation, William Shakespeare}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 24, 2017

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Cardiff University, China, complexity, Devonian Period, evolution, fossils, phylogenetic reconstruction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, simplicity, tree}

World’s Oldest Tree Is World’s Most Complex Tree

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 24, 2017

Anatomy, Evolution, Life Sciences

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This makes no sense in light of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 20, 2016

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __tedited, aquatic bladderworts, carnivorous plants, common sense, critical thinking, intuitions, Irreducible Complexity, Nature, physical causes, scientific reasoning, simplicity, transitional forms, unguided natural processes}

Carnivorous Plants, and Why 0 Really Is Not Equal to 1

_{Granville Sewell
June 20, 2016

Biology, Botany, Evolution

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There is a little mathematics game that people sometimes play. You start with x=0, do some long, complicated algebraic manipulations, and end up with x=1. Read More ›