Tag: theists

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Tagged
, ACLU, Antony Flew, attorneys, biology, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Christians, cricket (sport), Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Dover trial, education, evolution, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, Harrisburg, Henry Quastler, Hollywood, information, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, natural processes, Pennsylvania, philosophy of science, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Crowther, Scopes Monkey Trial, Spencer Tracy, Stephen Meyer, Summer for the Gods, theists, theology, William Paley, Williams Jennings Bryan}

Dover Days: A Fatuous Decision Is About to Turn 20 Years Old

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education

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Judge Jones looked my way, and his expression seemed full of fellow feeling, as if to say, “Don’t sweat it. I’m all about free speech. I’ve got your back.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa}

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, Aristotle, atheists, bifurcation, children, Christian civilization, Christians, civilization, Emma Camp, Evangelicals, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason Magazine, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, surgical sexual mutilation, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, tradcath, wokeness}

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2025

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 2, 2024

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, music theory, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace}

Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

_{Peter Biles
November 2, 2024

Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, death, Donald Trump, Ethos, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, Iran, natural selection, Nazis, NBC News, theism, theists, unnatural selection}

Weaponizing Science: Accused Trump Gunman Cited “Natural Selection”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 17, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Reporting

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The ethos that would most logically come from recognizing the design in life, every life, is the very opposite of what you'd expect from Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 2, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, attorney, Austin, Baylor University, Christianity, faith and science, intelligent design, jesus, law, naturalism, Nobel Prize, Phillip E. Johnson, physicists, Scripture, Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, The Nature of Nature, theism, theists, University of Texas}

My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

_{William A. Dembski
April 2, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, epistemic virtues, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, Christof Koch, consciousness, crabs, Francis Crick, hard problem of consciousness, John Horgan, Kristin Andrews, materialism, mind, nervous system, neuroscience, panpsychism, philosophers, physiology, theists, York University}

Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 11, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arrow, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, random, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 15, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Amazon, Christianity, Dave Farina, defining science, empiricism, Energy, faith and science, history, humility, ID the Future, intellectual humility, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, logic, matter, methodological naturalism, realism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, theists, Twitter, William A. Dembski}

Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 15, 2023

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Read More ›