03Apr 2026 by Post

Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

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So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Source
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02Apr 2026 by Post

Before Darwin, How Maxwell’s Intelligent Design Argument Forecast Modern ID

Alvin Plantinga, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Douglast Axe, evolutionary literature, G. K. Chesterton, history of science, Intelligent Design, James C. Rautio, James Clerk Maxwell, Katherine Dewar, Lewis Campbell, Matthew Stanley, Michael Flannery, natural theologians, naturalism, Origin of Species, poems, Select Essay Club, Stephen Meyer, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
He was well versed in the evolutionary literature as well as in design arguments from antiquity to his day. Source
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06Mar 2020 by Post

Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID is Showing

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Editor’s note: Dr. Shedinger is a Professor of Religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He is the author of a recent book critiquing Darwinian triumphalism, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms. No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. I can think of few better examples than well-known cosmologist Paul Davies’s recently published book The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life (2019). With a nod toward James Clerk Maxwell’s entropy-defying demon, Davies argues that the gulf between physics and biology is completely unbridgeable without some fundamentally new concept. Since living organisms consistently resist the ravages of entropy that all forms of inanimate matter are subject to, there must be some non-physical principle allowing living…
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