03Oct 2026 by Post

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, Divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, Evolution, Intelligent Design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert
My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus.  Source
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14May 2026 by Post

Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding

Alexander H. Stephens, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Confederacy, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, Founders, history of science, human equality, Intelligent Design, John West, liturgy, natural theology, political science, Politics, Power Line, scientific racism, slavery, Southerners, Steve Hayward, United States, window dressing
Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy. Source
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30Mar 2026 by Post

In the Year of the Declaration’s 250th, Condemning Slavery in the Name of a “Vibe”?

americans, Bible, creator, creed, Declaration of Independence, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, Founders, generations, happiness, human beings, Intelligent Design, iterations, John West, liberty, life, natural theology, political science, rights, slavery, social evolution, United States, vibe
How urgent this book’s message is was brought home to me over the weekend in a conversation with a bright young man. Source
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22Mar 2026 by Post

The Matters that Matter: What I Learned from My Brother’s Death

accolades, Artificial Intelligence, atoms, biological origins, career, chemical reactions, cognitive simulation, community, Computational Sciences, computer science, cosmos, cremation, death, design detection, Faith & Science, faith and science, Intelligent Design, Love, machine learning, materialist paradigm, mathematics, motorcycle, natural theology, nature, peers, Resurrection, tears, unguided processes, universe, YouTube videos
I’ve built my professional career on twin pillars. The first is cognitive simulation, that is, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Source
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25Nov 2025 by Post

Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

Alan of, Alfred Russel Wallace, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bernard Silvestris, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë, cosmology, Darwinism, Edward Pusey, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, historical sciences, Jane Eyre, Jean de Meun, Lamarckism, maternal figure, Mother Nature, Natura, Natura creatrix, natural preservation, natural selection, natural theology, Ovid, Physis, Queens of the Wild, Robert J. Richards, Romance of the Rose, Ronald Hutton, teleology, world spirit
The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Source
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31May 2025 by Post

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, building blocks, Chance and Necessity, chipmunks, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Evolution, Faith & Science, Ferrari, final causality, flowering plants, Ford Mustang, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, immanent power, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Hutchison Stirling, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, perch, pollinators, representational directedness, rodent, Technology, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, Wiliam Dembski, wolf
Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Source
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28Aug 2023 by Post

The Return of Natural Theology

Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, Energy, entropy, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, God's Grandeur, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, materialists, multiverse, natural processes, natural theology, order, origin of life, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, Podcast, reason
Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Source
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13Jun 2022 by Post

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, Anthony O’Hear, biology, consciousness, cosmogonism, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Crick, How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, The Origin of Species, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe
Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Source
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20Apr 2022 by Post

Charles Darwin’s “Intelligent Design”

Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Bridgewater Treatises, British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, British Quarterly Review, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, London Review, M. J. Berkeley, natural history, natural selection, natural theology, orchids, Origin of Species, R. Vaughn, Richard Dawkins, Saturday Review
"To those whose delight it is to dwell upon the manifold instances of intelligent design which everywhere surround us, this book will be a rich storehouse." Source
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