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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 20, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, chance, design hypothesis, evil, intelligent cause, intelligent life, likelihood, natural disasters, physical constants, probabilities, suffering, universe}

Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 20, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). 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

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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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, Dogs, humans, moral value, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, slavery, suffering, Virginia}

Dead Pets: PETA’s Astonishing Kill Rate

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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PETA’s leadership may believe that some animals are better off dead than adopted by households that are non-vegan. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Ball State University, determinism, experience, free will, good, humans, ID the Future, infancy, intelligent design, laws of nature, morality, suffering, universe}

Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in an Intelligently Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 6, 2023

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Physics

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As Hedin puts it, “The universe reveals who we are by allowing us to make free choices.” In other words, the ball is in our court. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, human bodies, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, molecules, moral responsibility, natural disasters, natural forces, naturalism, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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First, Dr. Hedin discusses the problem of natural evils like earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, and other natural disasters. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 11, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Bible, cars, death, disease, droughts, evil, flat tire, floods, gravity, human evil, humanity, hurricane, injury, intelligent design, microbes, natural causes, natural disasters, natural evil, naturalism, pain, poverty, Scripture, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, theodicy, tinkering, tornadoes, universe, water, weather}

Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

_{Eric Hedin
October 11, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, experts, health care, homelessness, housing, Journal of Medical Ethics, laws, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, popular culture, poverty, regulations, suffering, United States}

Bioethicists: Killing Okay for “Unjust Social Conditions”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 14, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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I can’t imagine this being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Tagged
, autistism, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Eve, faith, historians, intelligent design, magic wand, mathematician, miracles, New Testament, New York Times, suffering, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina, William A. Dembski}

Dembski and the Miraculous

_{David Klinghoffer
December 25, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy, Science Reporting

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"Dr. Dembski’s family has learned to look for the miraculous in everyday loving encounters." Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, freedom, grief, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

_{Granville Sewell
November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 17, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, Batsell Barrett Baxter, C.S. Lewis, cancer, chemotherapy, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, human beings, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, jesus, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, pain, philosophers, suffering, surgery}

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Pain

_{Granville Sewell
November 17, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It is often claimed that the design inference is a religious conclusion. It is not. Read More ›