Tag: theism

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
May 19, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __trending, 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

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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

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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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abduction, abductive inferences, abductive reasoning, Alvin Plantinga, Bible, Big Bang, Calvinism, causes, creator, Dinesh D’Souza, documentary, effects, evidence, heart, induction, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, New Testament, philosophers, philosophy, Psalms, Romans, scientific reasoning, sensus divinitatis, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theism, theology, wisdom}

Meyer, D’Souza: Is Knowledge of a Creator Innate?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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A couple of friends made me laugh last week in telling about a Jewish class they took. Read More ›

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Author
Scott Powell

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, astronomy, biology, Charles Darwin, Cicero, computer code, cosmology, creator, digital symbols, discovery, DNA, fine-tuning, Florence, galactic habitable zone, Galileo Galilei, history, intelligence, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Karl Marx, living cell, Medicis, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Periclean Athens, physics, programmer, progress, Robert Boyle, self-destruction, The Story of Everything, theism, Thomas Huxley, war, William Shakespeare, written language}

In the Sweep of History, Two Great Competing Stories

_{Scott Powell
April 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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We are on the threshold of greater discovery and flourishing than ever because of a quiet, but growing reconciliation between trust in science and trust in God. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, beginning, Bertrand Russell, Big Bang, Cambridge University, Christianity, cosmology, creator, designer, despair, faith and science, Hoover Institution, James Tour, john lennox, monotheism, Peter Robinson, philosophers, scientists, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theaters, theism, universe, Why I Am Not a Christian}

Lennox, Meyer, Tour, Robinson: The Science of Monotheism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The indefinite article is emphatically in the singular. In all those statements, there was only one beginning. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 21, 2026

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Deity, doubts, evolution, evolutionary process, evolutionists, ideas, intelligent design, interviews, knowledge, Matt Fradd, monotheists, naturalism, Nature, Pints with Aquinas, reality, reason, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, The Story of Everything, theaters, theism}

Meyer, Fradd: Atheist Evolutionists Reason as if They Were Theists

_{David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2026

Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Only a loving Deity who endowed us with reason — a highly unnatural gift! — can explain why we are able to think rationally, including about science. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Groothuis

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, biographers, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, caste system, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Elon Musk, endowed by our creator, evolution, First Amendment, Founders, Founding, French Revolution, guillotine, happiness, Hinduism, humans, image of God, infidels, Islam, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, sanctity of life, Second Treatise on Government, social contract theory, St. Augustine, Steve Jobs, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, The Social Contract, theism, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Unitarians, universal human rights, utopianism, Walter Isaacson, worldview}

In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

_{Douglas Groothuis
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, assumptions, background information, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian confirmation theory, Bayesian reasoning, Clark Glymour, confidence, denominators, Dutch book argument, epistemic probabilities, evidence, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, general relativity, General Theory of Relativity, hypothesis, likelihood, likelihood ratio, marginal probability, mental state, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, normalization factor, panpsychism, pantheism, posterior probability, prior probability, probabilities, psychological states, Sean Carroll, subjectivism, subjectivist Bayesianism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, universe}

Bayesian Methodology and the Fine-Tuning Argument

_{Bruce Gordon
March 17, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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To use Clark Glymour’s example, Einstein's general theory of relativity explained the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Aristotelian cosmos, Copernican displacement, cosmic enormity, cosmic scale, cosmology, Dante, demotion, divine hiddenness, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Hell, human centrality, intelligent cause, intelligibility, methodology, motivation, natural philosophy, naturalism, posteriors, priors, promotion, Psalms, Robert B. Stewart, Satan, scientific revolution, Scripture, Sean Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

_{Bruce Gordon
March 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›