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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abiogenesis, argument from ignorance, artificial intelligence, biases, ChatGPT, chemical evolution, comets, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, early Earth, higher intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, meteorites, methodological naturalism, multiverse, natural selection, Occam's Razor, panpsychism, panspermia, physical constants, physical laws, primordial soup, self-organization, testability, thermodynamics}

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 18, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, coincidences, complex life, earth, Enceladus, geysers, habitable zone, intelligent design, Jupiter, magnetic field, Mars, Michael Denton, NASA, Neptune, plate tectonics, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar system, The Miracle of Man, thermodynamics, timing, Titan, Uranus}

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing

_{David Coppedge
October 18, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
Tagged
, Big Think, carbon, electric fields, electrons, Energy, Ethan Siegel, graphene, Lawrence Krauss, matter, particle physics, particles, photon, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, universe}

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

_{Rob Sheldon
September 19, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science

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In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Charles Thaxton, Czech Republic, Dallas, David Hume, DNA, Douglas Axe, England, Enlightenment, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, information, information theory, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Prague, Roger Olsen, Russell Doolittle, Stephen Meyer, Texas, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 11, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science

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It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›

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Date
February 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, entropy, evolution, genes, learning, natural selection, Neural Networks, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Theodosius Dobzhansky, thermodynamics, Thomas Malthus, universe, vitalism}

Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics

_{Science & Culture
February 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, Casey Luskin, Darwin's Doubt, Elliott Sober, Eric Cassell, Ernst Mayr, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, Granville Sewell, gravitation, Isaac Newton, Kirk Durston, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, neo-Darwinian theory, No Free Lunch, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, punctuated equilibria, Richard Weikart, RNA, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics, vitalism, William A. Dembski}

Evolution Is Not Like Physics

_{David Coppedge
February 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Physical Sciences, Physics

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A new theory of evolution extends Darwinian processes, making them into physical laws based on “learning theory.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Brian Miller, intelligent design, Into the Impossible, Jeremy England, Judaism, Moses, Orthodox Jews, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics}

Keating, England: Two Jewish Physicists on Faith, Intelligent Design, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
November 3, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The last 48 minutes or so are the most compelling as England, an Orthodox rabbi, talks about the reason for his “tending to reject” arguments for ID. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 1, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, dice, economics, France, Great Britain, No Free Lunch, nothing, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Scotland, thermodynamics, Wales, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 1, 2021

Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Christianity, disorder, entropy, feedback loops, first cell, free energy, information, James Tour, Jeremy England, order, Rice University, thermodynamics}

Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without

_{Jonathan Witt
December 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, atheism, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, first cell, James Tour, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, materialists, natural selection, planets, Rice University, thermodynamics}

See It Now: James Tour and Brian Miller on Explaining the Origin of Life

_{David Klinghoffer
December 10, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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They cover abiogenesis and “Natural Selection of the Gaps,” systems biology, design triangulation, whether life could arise anywhere without design, and more. Read More ›