22Jul 2026 by Post

Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

aesthetic criteria, Albert Einstein, Anthony O’Hear, Artemis II, Arthur Eddington, beauty, Brian Greene, coherence, controversy, disinterested, Earthset, empirical fit, existential, Faith & Science, fauna, fittingness, flora, fruitfulness, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John Frame, Mare Orientale, mathematical beauty, Michael Keas, Milky Way, Moon, Nobel Prize, normative, oughtness, philosophers, pleasure, Science and Beauty (series), scientific theories, Serge Brunier, situational, solar eclipse, Steven Weinberg, subatomic particles, The Elegant Universe, The Evidential Power of Beauty, The Privileged Planet, theoretical virtues, Thomas Dubay, triperspectivalism
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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20Apr 2026 by Post

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

air bladder, animals, beach, beachcombing, bilaterian animals, brown algae, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, convergent evolution, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran fossils, Evolution, evolutionary theory, fauna, flora, fossil-hunting, fossils, hemichordate worms, holdfast, kelp, kelp stipe, Kingdom Protista, Margaretia dorus, Pacific Northwest, paleontology, plants, Precambrian strata, protists, rock hammer, Science (journal), tide-pooling, Western Washington
Over the past few days I’ve been discussing an important paper in the journal Science that reveals supposed Ediacaran bilaterian animal fossils (see here and here, with more to come). Meanwhile, this past weekend, I happened to go on a trip with friends here in Western Washington to do some tide-pooling, beach-combing, and fossil-hunting. We had a fantastic time enjoying the beauty of the inland-coastal Pacific Northwest. During our excursion, I also stumbled on a few things that, with that Science paper in mind, caught my attention. In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top (the holdfast is near the pointy “pick” end of Read More › Source
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14Feb 2024 by Post

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, continuity, cosmology, design detection, Douglas Axe, eagle eye, Emily Reeves, Evolution, fauna, fine-tuning, flora, hummingbird, Intelligent Design, intuition, laws of nature, non-agent cause, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, theistic evolution
On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Source
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11Nov 2023 by Post

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

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Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Source
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