Category: earth

20Mar 2025 by Post

In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures

beneficial design, creator, David Coppedge, earth, Faith & Science, functionality, George Washington Carver, GUT, Heather Gerrie, hidden treasures, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Mark A. Anthony, nature, netherworld, peanut, PNAS, searching, soil, University of British Columbia

Most people are familiar with George Washington Carver and his discoveries of multiple uses for the peanut. Source

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15Mar 2025 by Post

The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Copernican principle, earth, extra-solar planets, fine-tuning, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, local fine-tuning, Marcos Eberlin, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, theism, universal fine-tuning

Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Source

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14Feb 2025 by Post

How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

botany, Center for Science and Culture, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, David Klinghoffer, earth, embryology, Evolution, Evolution News, fingerprints, genetics, Günter Bechly, humans, Intelligent Design, Jay Mathers Savage, John West, koalas, mountain ranges, non-primates, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, state universities, sun, zoology

I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Source

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25Nov 2024 by Post

Francis Collins Employs Climate Change as a Cudgel

catastrophism, Christians, Climate, climate change, climate scientists, cold-related deaths, David Legates, denial, Department of Energy, earth, Europe, Francis Collins, guilt by association, heat-related deaths, Holocaust deniers, human flourishing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, John Christy, Judith Curry, Life Sciences, NASA, oil industry, Patrick Michaels, Physics, Earth & Space, Richard Lindzen, Ronan Connolly, Roy Spencer, Technology, temperature, The Road to Wisdom, William Happer, Willie Soon

Collins identifies as a Christian, but he seems to have missed a glaring instance of design in the Earth system. Source

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09Jul 2024 by Post

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, biology, cell's, devolution, earth, Evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Source

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22Jun 2024 by Post

What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?

astronomy, Bijan Nemati, coronagraph, cosmology, earth, Eric Anderson, Exoplanets, Habitable Worlds Observatory, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, NASA, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Roman Space Telescope, space dust, star shade technology, Technology

Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life. Source

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31May 2024 by Post

The Big Bang Simplified

Albert Einstein, astronomy, Big Bang, big squeeze, calculus, Discovery Institute Press, earth, General Theory of Relativity, Georges Lemaȋtre, gravitational attraction, gravitational theory, In the Beginning, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jean-Pierre Luminet, mathematics, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, philosophy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, special theory of relativity, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe

Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Source

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12May 2024 by Post

In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet

Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, aurora, aurora australis, aurora borealis, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Faith & Science, Geology, geomagnetic storm, helium, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, Junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, magnetic field lines, magnetic particles, magnetosphere, materialists, neon, nitrogen, northern lights, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, vortex, Wikipedia

You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Source

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10May 2024 by Post

Metals: From Stars to Cells

atomic weight, battery storage, cell's, civilization, crust-mantel boundary, dumb luck, earth, Earth’s crust, electrical wiring, foresight, fossils, fuel cells, Intelligent Design, interstellar space, iron, Jupiter, mantle, metallic ores, metals, meteoric bombardment, neutron capture, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, platinum, Saturn, silver, solar panels, stars, Stone Age, supernova, thorium, toxicity, uranium, Wealth

Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Source

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28Apr 2024 by Post

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, blue shifts, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Geology, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble age, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble-Lemaître constant, Intelligent Design, Milky Way, Physics, Earth & Space, spiral nebulae, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher

One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source

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