Tag: Socrates

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, background knowledge, Bayesian formalism, Bayesian reasoning, belief, Big Bang, calculus, conditionalization, cosmology, deductive logic, Dutch book arguments, fine-tuning, Fisherian hypothesis testing, inference to the best explanation, John Maynard Keynes, logic, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, null distributions, philosophy, precession, probability, propositions, psychological states, rejection regions, Sean Carroll, Socrates, subjective interpretation, syllogism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series)}

The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence

_{Bruce Gordon
March 27, 2026

Fine-tuning, Philosophy, Physics

11}

Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, Aristotle, atheists, children, Christians, civilization, Evangelicals, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason Magazine, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, wokeness}

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2025

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, physicians, Plato, poison, Pythagoras, Socrates, Stoics, The Republic}

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

_{Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

13}

Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, despair, Discovery Institute Press, Enlightenment, euthanasia, Greeks, history, Howard Glicksman, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Peter Singer, Richard Weikart, Socrates, suffering, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

_{Science & Culture
August 5, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

7}

The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Denis Noble, evolution, free speech, intelligent design, Maimonides, persecution, Philip Ball, Plato, Robert Shedinger, Socrates, Wikipedia, writing}

Persecution and the Art of “Darwinist” Writing

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

3}

The “right kind of reader” will take the hint and absorb the “esoteric” meaning. Read More ›

Parables From Nature Getty Profile 1600x900px Graphic - 1

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin’s Bluff, evolution, humans, intelligent design, marine biology, Michael Behe, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, paralysis, Patrick Matthew, ravens, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Socrates, transmutation}

Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, Allen Institute for Brain Science, awareness, Christof Koch, consciousness, Franz Brentano, ignorance, intentionality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, neuroscience, panpsychism, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Socrates, subjective experience, wisdom}

Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

7}

"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›

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Author
Logan Paul Gage

Date
April 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, atomists, Benjamin Wiker, Church Fathers, Democritus, Douglas Axe, Epicurus, evolution, God's Grandeur, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, New Atheists, Plato, Robin Collins, Roman Catholic, Scopes Monkey Trial, Scripture, Socrates, Stephen Meyer, stereotypes, William Lane Craig}

Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

_{Logan Paul Gage
April 24, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

7}

What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anaxagoras, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, atheism, atomists, body plans, Christianity, cognition, demiurge, Democritus, evolutionary theory, idealism, intelligent design, materialism, natural selection, Plato, purposefulness, Scott Turner, Socrates}

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

7}

Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›