02Sep 2021 by Post

The Federalist on Stephen Meyer’s Latest ­— “Harder and Harder to Dismiss Intelligent Design”

Big Bang, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, cosmic fine-tuning, God Hypothesis, Granville Sewell, information, Intelligent Design, Nobel Prize, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Federalist, universe
The “corporate media” is an apt formulation to describe the engine of mindless conformity that increasingly dominates our lives. Source
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20Aug 2021 by Post

Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”? 

Alfred North Whitehead, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Order of Things, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer
What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Source
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15Aug 2021 by Post

Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, naturalism, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute
It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Source
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06Aug 2021 by Post

God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

Bayesian reasoning, breadcrumbs, car break-in, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, Croatians, Delta variant, Faith & Science, Fran Lebowitz, God Hypothesis, Hansel and Gretel, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, Michael Scriven, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack, Thomas Crisp
The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Source
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04Aug 2021 by Post

Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

archaea, bacteria, beauty, Blaise Pascal, Caltech, Coscinodiscus, Cristobal Vila, Current Biology, diatoms, electron microscope, Engineering, eukaryotes, frustules, Germany, God Hypothesis, Gothic cathedrals, Intelligent Design, Izabela Zgłobicka, Life Sciences, light microscope, Michael Gross, microbes, Nature by Numbers, Nature Scientific Reports, photosynthetic algae, Poland, purpose, Zachary Aitken
The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like Gothic cathedrals. Source
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29Jul 2021 by Post

Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, and the God Hypothesis

Atheism, Beyond Order, Big Bang, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, Macbeth, metaphysics, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, psychology, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Santa Claus, scientists, secular humanism, Stephen Meyer, supernatural, universe
Stephen Meyer opens his new book with a memorable anecdote about debating Krauss live while battling a fierce migraine. Source
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