Tag: The Telegraph

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 11, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, atheism, atheists, biology, cosmology, Denis Noble, Eric Idle, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, minstrels, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, New Atheists, Oxford University, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Telegraph}

Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Richard

_{David Klinghoffer
October 11, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

If I were an atheist, I would feel pretty discouraged about now by the New Atheist icon. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, analogy, atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, functional specificity, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

5}

Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, Adolf Hitler, atheism, Bible, Britons, cosmologists, cultural Christianity, debates, fine-tuning, Frankie Howerd, Guy Consolmagno, humor, intelligent design, Joseph Stalin, knobs, liturgy, London, masturbation, meteorites, neo-Darwinian evolution, New Atheists, newspapers, philosophy, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, Sir Martin Rees, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Tablet, The Telegraph, Up Pompeii!, Vatican Observatory}

Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

10}

Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __trending, beginning, complex entities, cosmology, designer, DNA, Dunkirk, Energy, engines, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, French recipes, infinite regress, information, initial entropy, intelligent design, matter, mind, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Ockham’s razor, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, uncaused cause, universe, worldview}

Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, A Universe from Nothing, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, chance, Dan Graur, design, ENCODE project, Jerry Coyne, junk DNA, junk RNA, Lawrence Krauss, Leonard Mlodinow, lizard brain, Michael Shermer, models, physicists, researchers, Richard Dawkins, Sarah Scoles, Science and Culture Today, Scientific American, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, survival, The God Delusion, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, University of Houston}

In Science, Endless Competing Models Are a Warning Sign

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Genetics, Origin of Life

5}

Some of us are old enough to remember when the origin of life was a question that science would answer — soon. But that was hundreds of promising theories ago. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, Boltzmann brain, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, cosmologists, Everettian universe, fine-tuning, Hartle-Hawking model, Ijjas-Steinhardt model, inflationary string landscape, intelligent design, John Leslie, knowledge, Lawrence Krauss, metalevels, observer-selection effect, past-eternality, quantum cosmology, quantum mechanics, Samson, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, temporal beginning, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, Vilenkin model}

So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

6}

Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abductive inferences, ad hominems, Arkansas, Bruce Gordon, chemistry, contingency, cosmology, creator, dark matter, demarcation problem, evolutionary biologists, existence, forensic scientists, genetic fallacies, geologists, Larry Laudan, necessary being, New Atheists, philosophy of science, red herrings, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Telegraph}

“God of the Gaps,” and Other Old Friends: Responding to Critics in The Telegraph

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science

4}

There are a lot of commenters refuting arguments that Stephen Meyer never made. What he is offering is what philosophers of science call an abductive inference. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, atheist biologists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, biologists, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cosmology, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, dark matter, intelligent design, Japanese soldiers, John Gray, Lawrence Krauss, military history, molecular biology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New Atheists, Philippines, physicists, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Meyer, Steven Bartlett, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, World War II}

Meyer: Twenty Years Later, Debate with New Atheists Is Over

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

In the Philippine jungles after World War II, a few lonely Japanese soldiers carried on fighting for decades, not realizing the war was over. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Bheki Mahlobo, California, Carlo Rovelli, Catholics, Chapman University, Christianity, Elon Musk, engineers, Evangelicals, faith, Great Britain, hard problem of consciousness, Hong Kong, India, Joel Kotkin, mathematicians, mind, molecular biology, near-death experiences, New Atheists, new synergy, opossum, Piers Morgan, scientists, Society of Catholic Scientists, squid, Stephen Meyer, stereotypes, Taiwan, thanatosis, The Telegraph, universe}

Mind Behind the Universe? A Stereotype About Scientists May Be Crumbling

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

6}

Joel Kotkin points to a recent conference that brought together top engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to discuss the “new synergy.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Sociology
Tagged
, atheists, Bheki Mahlobo, Big Bang, Blu-ray, Book of Job, cells, chromosomes, DVD, Europe, faith, intelligence, intelligent design, Joel Kotkin, molecular biology, Piers Morgan, Real Clear Investigations, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, secularization, sociology, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, The Telegraph, theodicy, United States, universe, urban studies}

Science, Faith, and Education: Not the Unlikely Trio You Once Thought

_{David Klinghoffer
July 27, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Sociology

4}

Note this: “religiously engaged people have become more likely to be well-educated, while atheists are less so.” Read More ›