Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, biology, black holes, climatology, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, cosmological initial conditions, density of gas, density of stars, exobiology, fine-tuning, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, galactic disk, gas metallicity, geophysics, global tuning, habitability, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, life, local tuning, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, planetary dynamics, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, stellar evolution, supernova rate, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source
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Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, biology, Christianity, compartmentalism, cosmology, creator, Epistemology, faith, Faith & Science, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian tradition, metaphysics, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Robert Grosseteste, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Sir Isaac Newton, soul, William of Ockham, Worldview
For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Source
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

agency, Andrea Roli, biology, computer science, economy, ecosystems, Engineering, Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, innovation, Intelligent Design, Johannes Jaeger, mechanistic science, naturalism, ontology, Philosophy of Science, scholars, scientific knowledge, Siberia, skating, social sciences, Stuart A. Kauffman, teleological behavior, teleology
Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

amniotes, amphibians, anamniotes, BIO-Complexity, biology, birds, blastula, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, David Swift, development, developmental biology, ectoderm, endoderm, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, Evolution Under the Microscope, gastrulation, germ layers, homologous organs, homology, Intelligent Design, lancelets, mammals, mesoderm, neurulation, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, science, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate development, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem
Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Source
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Summers Seminars: A MUST if You’re Considering a Science Career; Applications Due April 1

academia, application, biology, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, college, Colorado, deadline, Education, Events, Evolution, Glen Eyrie Castle, graduate students, graduates, humanities, Intelligent Design, professionals, professors, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, students, Summer Seminars, teachers, Travel, undergraduates
One student said he was shocked to find that the academic quality was greater than that of many of his college courses and yet it cost him nothing. Source
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Convergence? One-Celled Creature Has an Eye!

biology, Brian Leander, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, chromosomes, convergence, convergent evolution, electromagnetic waves, Erythropsidinium, Evolution, evolutionary plasticity, eye, Intelligent Design, light, light-sensitive spot, Living Waters, Nature (journal), New Scientist, ocelloid, optics, organelles, plankton, Timothy Standish, University of British Columbia, warnowiid dinoflagellate
“Convergent evolution” is not a process. It is a post-hoc observation based on evolutionary assumptions. Source
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