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25Oct 2025 by Post

Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

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The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Source

04Jul 2025 by Post

More on Disguised Religion

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Not in science or in any other context does one faith get to impose its terms on others. Source

12Aug 2024 by Post

Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

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Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Source

17Jul 2024 by Post

The Magician’s Twin: A Conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

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Citing C. S. Lewis, Dr. Meyer calls the drama of materialism’s unravelling a kind “repentance.” Source

17Mar 2024 by Post

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

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Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Source

17Jan 2024 by Post

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Source

21Dec 2023 by Post

To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

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It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Source

06Mar 2023 by Post

Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Source

20Feb 2021 by Post

Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

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Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order. Source

24Oct 2020 by Post

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

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Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Source

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