Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

Albert Einstein, bacterial flagellar motor, biochemistry, cell's, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gilder, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, National Review, nature, New York Times, Paul Nelson, quantum theory, Revolutionary Behe, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, Watson and Crick
The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Source
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Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

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To the non-scientist, it may come as a surprise that scientists would appeal to aesthetic standards in evaluating the validity of scientific theories. Source
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Hello, Materialists, Let’s Weigh and Measure the Mind

Alain Aspect, Albert Einstein, American Heritage Dictionary, Anton Zeilinger, Charles Murray, Discovery Institute, Hanna Webster, Herbert Benson, human mind, International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, John F. Clauser, Margaret Harris, materialism, Medicine, Michael Egnor, Neuroscience & Mind, New England Skeptical Society, placebo effect, Popular Mechanics, quantum Zeno effect, Steven Novella, sugar pill, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Vaccines
A recent review of our book provides a chances to reflect on mind verus matter — and materialism. Source
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Meyer on Mind Pump: Intelligent Design for the Fitness Crowd

Albert Einstein, Dinesh D’Souza, documentary, Evolution, Faith & Science, fitness, health, Intelligent Design, media, Michael Knowles, multiverse, Piers Morgan, Pints with Aquinas, Science Reporting, Stephen Meyer, subscribers, The Story of Everything, theaters, YouTube channels
Dr. Meyer is talking about Albert Einstein’s greatest error with a huge “podcast that is dedicated to providing truthful fitness and health information.” Source
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Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, arts, bad dream, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, chance, Charles Murray, Christianity, cosmology, designer, Eric Esau, faith, Faith & Science, Georges Lemaître, God and the Astronomers, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Larry Sanger, Lawrence Krauss, material reality, New York Times, physical laws, priests, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer, stories, supernatural, The Story of Everything, theologians, theoretical physicists, unintelligent forces, universe, Wikipedia
In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Source
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The Source of Human Creativity Is Intelligent Design

adults, Albert Einstein, architect, artificial inteligence, birds, brain, creative designer, Creativity, faith, Faith & Science, genius, Granville Sewell, human beings, human creativity, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Ludwig van Beethoven, Madeleine L’ Engle, nest, new year’s resolutions, Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy, toddlers, universe, Walking on Water
Within the field of music, Beethoven’s compositions stand out not least because of his progressive loss of hearing. Source
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No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

"God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, Complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, william lane craig
I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Source
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

Albert Einstein, Ambrose Bierce, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, dualisms, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, Philosophy of Science, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientific reasoning, scientism, structure, structure-function relationships, The Devil's Dictionary, What Is Life?
It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Source
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The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

A Fortunate Universe, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, black holes, driving, earth, escape velocity, expansion rate, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, Geraint F. Lewis, GPS systems, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Luke A. Barnes, matter, Moon, nuclear forces, particles, physics, Planetology, planets, universe
One of the most remarkable aspects of our universe is the discovery that just four fundamental forces of nature govern interactions among all particles. Source
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COSM 2025 Will Feature Nobel Laureate Physicist and Skeptic John F. Clauser

Alain Aspect, Albert Einstein, Anton Zeilinger, Boris Podolsky, climate models, COSM 2025, Discovery Institute, Environment & Climate, International Monetary Fund, John F. Clauser, John Stuart Bell, Louisa Gilder, Nathan Rosen, Nobel laureates, particles, photon, physicists, physics, spin, Stuart Freedman, The Age of Entanglement, Washington Post
Discovery Institute’s upcoming COSM 2025 tech conference will feature something a little different. Source
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