Tag: theism

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 7, 2026

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Path from Rome, agnostics, anti-reductionism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Hugh Clough, atheists, biology, Brief Encounters, Christians, deconversion, Denis Noble, Edward Feser, evolutionary biology, Financial Times, form, function, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Lord Richard Harries, New Atheists, Oxford University, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, religions, Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams, Sheldonian Theatre, Sir Anthony Kenny, The God Delusion, The Sun, theism}

Haunted by God: Remembering Sir Anthony Kenny

_{Bethel McGrew
August 7, 2026

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Kenny still appreciated a good church service and even did readings from the breviary. Unusually, he argued there was no reason why an agnostic shouldn't pray. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 5, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Armand Assante, Athena, blessings, Brad East, Cambridge Elements, Christopher Nolan, Contemporary Pagan Philosophy, disenchantment, Eric Steinhart, faith, Federation of American Scientists, intelligent design, Interstellar, knowledge, mad scientist, magicians, Marvel Cinematic Universe, methodological naturalism, Möbius strip, natural disasters, naturalism, philosophers, polytheism, Richard Dawkins, scientists, teacher’s pet, The Odyssey, The Prestige, theism, theistic evolutionists, wizards, Yiyang Zhuge, Zeus}

Christopher Nolan’s Disenchanted Odyssey

_{Bethel McGrew
August 5, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

In Nolan's supposal, the mad scientist takes on the mystique of a wizard. Perhaps this is fitting, given that he sees science and wizardry as the same thing. Read More ›

Conceptual hand writing showing And The Survey Says.... Business photo text doing poll and bring the results discuss with others Speakers alarming script signals announcement message convey

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, argumentum ad populum, background knowledge, Big Bang, Big Mysteries Survey, Black Holes Inside and Out, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, Brian Keating, brute facts, Copenhagen, likelihoods, naturalism, Niayesh Afshordi, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Physics Magazine, polling, principle of sufficient reason, Stephen Meyer, surveys, The Story of Everything, theism, UC San Diego, universe}

Polling the Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows, and What It Does Not

_{Bruce Gordon
August 4, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

8}

The nature of the surveys to which Phil Halper appeals is that they measure what physicists believe. They cannot measure what the evidence actually supports. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
July 14, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon jungle, animals, Antoni Gaudí, architects, Barcelona, C. S. Lewis, Carlsbad Caverns, cosmos, Epigenetics and the Architect, Homo sapiens, human intelligence, humanity, Isaac Newton, James P. Gills, Johannes Kepler, Judeo-Christian tradition, La Pedrera, medieval Church, Park Güell, Sagrada Família, Spain, Steve Fuller, theism, Thomas E. Woodward, University of Warwick}

Peering into the Known and the Unknown

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
July 14, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

6}

Every masterpiece can be traced to its master designer — the architect. Sagrada Família is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, Battle of the Big Bang, beginning, black hole, conformal cyclic cosmology, earth, egg cell, Ethan Siegel, experts, faith and science, first cells, Hebrews, intelligent design, John Wheeler, Lee Smolin, Nobel Prize, physicists, physics, Planck era, Roger Penrose, Singularity, tachyonic physics, The Road to Reality, theism, universe, Wikipedia}

When the Experts Disagree on the Origin of the Universe…

_{Eric Hedin
June 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

5}

As with life, the beginning of our universe entailed special conditions, not only of the laws of physics, but also of the arrangement of its component atoms. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 8, 2026

Categories
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, creator, electromagnetic waves, experimental results, funding, honesty, humility, James Hartle, kingdom, Nobel Prize, philosophers, photoelectric effect, physics, Planck time, predictions, Roger Penrose, scientists, servants, Singularity, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, technology, The Road to Reality, theism, transcendent cause, universe}

New Physics Is Always Tentative; Here’s Why

_{Eric Hedin
June 8, 2026

Physics, Scientific Reasoning

6}

The prime example of all difficulties for new theories in physics relates to the ultimate origin of everything. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 3, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, air, Bible, communication, earth, equations, food, Genesis, George MacDonald, humans, illusion, intelligent design, laws of nature, life, materialism, materialistic worldview, matter, meaning, movements, particles, perception, Periodic Table, reality, Stephen L. Talbott, The New Atlantis, theism, universe}

Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

_{Eric Hedin
June 3, 2026

Faith & Science, Physics

5}

The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Read More ›

Two dice bouncing with sparks. Concept for probability and random choice. Casino gambling and gaming.

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
May 19, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Anthony Aguirre, Battle of the Big Bang, beans, Caltech, Christopher Hitchcock, cosmos, Daniel Díaz-Pachón, debates, dice, dimensional analysis, fine-tuning, Frank Wilczek, Fred Adams, general relativity, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Luke Barnes, Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, normalizability, Ola Hössjer, parameter space, Phil Halper, physics, Planck scale, posterior probability, prior probability, probability, Robert Marks, Robin Collins, Standard Model, Stephen Meyer, theism}

Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

_{Bruce Gordon
May 19, 2026

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

15}

Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animations, archival footage, atheism, Carl Sagan, debate, documentary, Lawrence Krauss, narrator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, scholars, scientific atheists, scientists, smugness, sound, spokesmen, theism, video}

Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 1, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan Sandage, Angelika Film Center, astronomy, audience, Bijan Nemati, creator, Dean Kenyon, Design Inference, design theorists, documentary, geophysicists, inference to the best explanation, materialism, New York Times, physicists, physics, premiere, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rotary Club, scientific arguments, scientific reasoning, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, theism, universe, University of Cambridge, William Dembski}

Dispatch from Dallas: Documentary Premieres Where It All Started

_{Jonathan Witt
May 1, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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There is something fitting, even story-like, about Meyer's presence at the Dallas premiere. Read More ›