02May 2025 by Post

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

Aeneid, An Inventive Universe, Aristotle, Darwinism, Evolution, Gerald H. Pollack, Harvard University, human evolution, human spirit, Inkwell Press, Intelligent Design, James Barham, John McDowell, Kenneth G. Denbigh, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, natural selection, naturalism, neo-Thomists, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Philosophy of Science, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas
Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Source
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25Apr 2025 by Post

Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

cabbage, carrots, Charles Darwin, civilizations, Copernican moment, earth, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, Intelligent Design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, Planetology, planets, sun
I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Source
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26Dec 2024 by Post

Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict

al-Khwarizmi, algebra, algorithm, Charles Darwin, Evangelical Christianity, Faith & Science, Grand Unified Theory, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Issac Newton, James Ferguson, Jan Spitzer, Jerry Coyne, Jesus, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Matías Cabello, Michael Behe, Nicolaus Copernicus, religion, revolutionibus, Theory of Everything, Why Evolution Is True
I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Source
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31May 2024 by Post

The Big Bang Simplified

Albert Einstein, astronomy, Big Bang, big squeeze, calculus, Discovery Institute Press, earth, General Theory of Relativity, Georges Lemaȋtre, gravitational attraction, gravitational theory, In the Beginning, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jean-Pierre Luminet, mathematics, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, philosophy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, special theory of relativity, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe
Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Source
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21Dec 2023 by Post

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

"God of the gaps", Aristotle, body, causation, Christianity, DNA, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, proteins, René Descartes, ribosomes, science of purpose, scientism, soul, Stephen Meyer, subject-object metaphysics, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski
It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Source
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28Sep 2023 by Post

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Alan Watts, Aristotle, biology, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, Evolution, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, function, Galileo Galilei, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Life Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus, origin of life, parts, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, The Book, Thomas Aquinas, whole, Zen masters
The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Source
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30Jan 2023 by Post

New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional

astronomy, Copernican principle, cosmological walls, cosmology, earth, filaments, galaxies, habitability, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, Miguel Aragón, Milky Way, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nicolaus Copernicus, Physics, Earth & Space, Satellites Around Galactic Analogs, sheets, solar system, star formation, The Privileged Planet, Unbelievable?, universe, voids, walls
“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.” Source
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01Feb 2022 by Post

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

alchemy, Ancient Near East, astrology, astronomy, Casey Luskin, Chemistry, Christianity, Faith & Science, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, ID The Future, Johannes Kepler, John Bloom, Judeo-Christian tradition, Nicolaus Copernicus, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Source
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06Oct 2020 by Post

Admit an “Error” by Darwin and Huxley? Here’s How It Could Be Permitted

Aaron Hirsch, Bible, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, dominion, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Evolution, evolutionary theory, golf, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Kim Jon-il, Lord Byron, Nautilus, Nicolaus Copernicus, North Sea, On the Origin of Species, overfishing, psychology, T.H. Huxley
As we all know, evolutionary theory, like the famed golf game of Kim Jon-il, contains no errors or weaknesses of any kind. Source
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