Tag: universe

Concept art of nature freedom dream success brain and hope , ambition idea artwork, surreal painting man with happiness of landscape nature in a door , conceptual illustration

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Author
Tom Winkler

Date
September 17, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __featured3, Academic Questions, Anthony Flew, art, atheists, Big Bang, composers, Dan Asia, Denyse O’Leary, faith and science, intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, music, National Association of Scholars, North Texas State University, philosophy, religion, settled science, soul, The Immortal Mind, theism, There Is a God, universe, University of North Texas}

Toward Theism, but Cautiously: Reviewing Flew, Egnor, and O’Leary

_{Tom Winkler
September 17, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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"As with the Big Bang before its widespread acceptance, we may find ourselves increasingly compelled to take such possibilities seriously — even if cautiously." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, emotion, evolution, explainaway, falsified theories, Georgia Tech, human brain, limbic system, lizard brain, neuroscience, overthinking, Paul D. MacLean, physiology, pop psychology, reptilian brain, Science Daily, smarts, social anxiety, The Dragons of Eden, universe}

Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 10, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 31, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academics, ACLU, animal behavior, C. W. Howell, design detection, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Dover trial, Duke University, evolution, Expelled (movie), genomics, Google searches, hare, human body, intelligent cause, intelligent design, linchpin, media attention, Michael Behe, molecular biology, National Center for Science Education, New York University Press, paleontology, peer-reviewed papers, Pennsylvania, Phillip Johnson, PragerU, protein science, research program, Seattle, snowballs, Stephen Meyer, students, Summer Seminars, systematics, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Story of Everything, tortoise, universe, YouTube videos}

Steady and Consistent Growth: The Real Story of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 31, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Snowballs start small. But they grow steadily over time, and after a while they really start to get large and pick up speed. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Behind and Beyond the Brain Symposium, brains, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, cognition, David Chalmers, emotions, filter model, hard problem of consciousness, Human Immortality (book), Integrated information theory, J. L. Saver, J. Rabin, materialism, mental awareness, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, paradoxical lucidity, Peter Kreeft, reality, receptors, reducing valve, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, sensations, senses, terminal lucidity, thoughts, universe, William James}

What if the Brain Is a Filter?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 17, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, accelerationism, Arizona, Cambridge University, chemical composition, cosmological constant, cosmology, dark energy, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, expansion rate, fine-tuning, galaxies, gamma ray bursts, Kitt Peak, Lambda Cold Dark Matter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, measurements, Michael Levi, Milky Way, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, optical fibers, position, standard model of cosmology, telescope, universe, velocity, ΛCDM}

New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

_{Eric Hedin
August 17, 2026

Astronomy, Cosmology, Fine-tuning

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Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 13, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, A Fortunate Universe, Albert Einstein, atoms, Canceled Science, dark energy, Edwin Hubble, Energy, expansion rate, field equations, galaxies, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay W. Richards, life, light, photons, quantum theory, space, spectroscopic instruments, stars, supernovae, The Privileged Planet, universe}

The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

_{Eric Hedin
August 13, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. 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

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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
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

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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

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

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Author
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaequatio intellectus ad pulchrum, aesthetic judgments, Anthony O’Hear, beauty, Boethius, C. S. Lewis, chemistry, classical Christian education, Douglas fir trees, education, evergreen forests, Fibonacci sequence, Johannes Kepler, John Frame, Junius Johnson, Kevin Clark, natural philosophy, old books, On the Incarnation, Pacific Northwest, physics, prayer, Ravi Jain, remembering, Roman philosophers, Science and Beauty (series), St. Athanasius, stem, Surprised by Joy, The Father of Lights, The Liberal Arts Tradition, The Weight of Glory, Third Law of Planetary Motion, Thomas Aquinas, universe, Western redcedars}

Physical Beauty, Mathematical Beauty, Scientific Beauty

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 23, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Fifteen centuries ago, when he was falsely accused of treason, exiled from his home, and awaiting his execution, Boethius consoled himself with those words. Read More ›