Tag: St. Paul

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 8, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, [Un]Intentional, 1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, dopamine, Doug Smith, education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, software, St. Paul, Substack, technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan}

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

_{William A. Dembski
January 8, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education, Technology

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Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Bible, California, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Hamlet, Hebrew Bible, Higher Criticism, James Moore, Journal of Researches, miracles, Mircea Eliade, On the Origin of Species, poetry, Pyrrho, Robert Fitzroy, secularism, St. Paul, William Paley}

With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

_{Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, creationism, devolution, evolution, harmony, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Natural Theology (book), Panda's Thumb, proportion, Religions (journal), St. Paul, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, symmetry, theology, William A. Dembski, William Paley, Young Earth Creationists}

Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 5, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature. Read More ›

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Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, Cicero, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, DNA, eugenics, evolution, George Gaylord Simpson, Giuseppe Sermonti, intelligent design, Islam, jesus, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Marco Respinti, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Plato, Pope Benedict XVI, Psalms, Racism, software, St. Paul, Stephen Meyer, The Magician's Twin}

The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer

_{Science & Culture
November 10, 2022

Bioethics, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

7}

"ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers." Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, faith, nature, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Science, spirituality, St. Paul, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series), worship}

A Wordsworthian Disciple: William Hale White

_{Neil Thomas
November 4, 2022

Astronomy, Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

4}

Many reported being “converted” to a Wordsworthian view of the world after reading him. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, Big Tech, Christianity, death, faith, fasting, Huffington Post, immortality, materialism, Nick Bostrom, nihilism, prayer, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, St. Paul, theology, transhumanism, Zoltan Istvan}

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 1, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

6}

First principles matter, and those of transhumanism and Christianity could not be more contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, brains, David Hume, determinism, evolution, free will, humans, illusion, knowledge, laws of nature, miracles, particles, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Sabine Hossenfelder, St. Paul, theoretical physics, truth}

Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

5}

Why should Sabine Hossenfelder think for a moment that anything that occurs to her has any correspondence to truth? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropocentrism, Associated Press, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, history, Roman Catholic, St. Paul, Western civilization}

Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter

_{Michael Flannery
May 7, 2019

Evolution

4}

Unlike many of his academic colleagues, Lukacs did not stand in awe and wonder of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Date
November 20, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, BioLogos, C. John Collins, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, civility, creationist, Dennis Venema, evolution, honesty, jesus, Natural Sciences, science, Scot McKnight, St. Paul, theistic evolution, theology}

Theistic Evolution and the Moral High Ground

_{Science & Culture
November 20, 2018

Faith & Science, Linguistics

3}

C. John Collins points out that Venema’s use of “language evolution” is a poor analogy for (his form of) biological evolution. Read More ›