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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, cosmology, Darwinism, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, Lamarckism, Mother Nature, natural preservation, natural selection, natural theology, Ovid, Robert J. Richards, teleology, world spirit}

Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

_{Neil Thomas
November 24, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Historical Sciences

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The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 24, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, carpenter, cause, Elie Feder, fine-tuning, ID the Future, mind, natural phenomena, physics, Physics to God, podcast, purpose, teleology, universe}

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 24, 2025

Cosmology, Physics

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Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, BIO-Complexity, biochemist, Children of Light, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, doctors, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, feathers, fire, Fire-Maker, fitness, Greek Orthodox Church, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, neo-Darwinian evolution, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, structuralism, teleology, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Has Michael Denton “Recanted” His Critiques of Darwinian Evolution?

_{Casey Luskin
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Obviously, in asking about someone’s view on “evolution,” the answer depends very much on how you define that notoriously multivalent word. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, disorder, entropy, evolutionary theory, God’s Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, mind, mindless processes, multiverse, natural selection, natural theology, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, podcast, scientific discoveries, teleology, YouTube channels}

Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chemists, debates, English, evolution, faith and science, Grzegorz Malec, intelligent design, Poland, Polish, secularization, teleology, Warsaw}

Postcard from Warsaw: Debating Teleology in Science

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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An English version of the debate, with Professor Sady's words translated into English, is now available on YouTube. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, teleology}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

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The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, biology, Casey Luskin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, engineering, engineers, function, ID 3.0, information, intelligent design, intention, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Perry Marshall, purpose, random mutation, randomness, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, Venn diagram}

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Apologetics Profile, Casey Luskin, chemistry, communication, evolution, high school, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kristin Marais, materialism, podcast, science, science communicators, students, teachers, teleology}

Losing the Plot: How Materialism Can Blind Scientists to Purpose

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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How a materialistic worldview causes many scientists and science communicators to lose the plot and forget what science is all about. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biology, cells, Chance & Necessity, Daniel Witt, final cause, foxes, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, purpose, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons}

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Zoology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, butterflies, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, immaterial genome, materialist explanations, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis (book), Michael Flannery, natural selection, naturalists, Paul Nelson, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, teleology}

Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

_{David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Zoology

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What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›