03Dec 2025 by Post

In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

Albert Einstein, Ambrose Bierce, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, dualisms, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, Philosophy of Science, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientific reasoning, scientism, structure, structure-function relationships, The Devil's Dictionary, What Is Life?
It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Source
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18Nov 2025 by Post

With Political Litmus Tests, Science Journals Go Anti-Science

Anna Krylov, bias, DEI, editors, ideology, integrity, Joe Biden, journals, Kamala Harris, litmus tests, Medicine, Nature (journal), Nature Portfolio, Nature Reviews Psychology, objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, propaganda, Reform, Scientific Freedom, scientific reasoning, skepticism, standards, The Free Press, universalism
If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead, perhaps these journals can regain the high regard in which they were once held. I certainly hope so. Source
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14Nov 2025 by Post

Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature for You

arguments, authority, bioscientists, cosmic fine-tuning, discoveries, Evidence, ID The Future, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, life, materialism, materialistic mindset, methodological naturalism, Michael Kent, natural constants, naturalism, origin of life, Podcast, scientific authorities, scientific reasoning, truth, unguided process, universe, Worldview
When it comes to science, many people don’t take the time to learn the evidence and arguments directly. Source
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15Oct 2025 by Post

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

alien civilizations, astrobiologists, Avi Loeb, BBC, Carl Sagan, David Kipping, extraterrestrials, Gizmodo, Hayabusa2, Jacob Haqq Misra, John Gertz, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Matt Williams, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Planetology, Principle of Mediocrity, Ravi Kopparapu, Rolf Dobelli, Science Alert, Science Focus, scientific reasoning, SETI, solar system, Technology, technosignatures, The Privileged Planet
The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Source
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05Oct 2025 by Post

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, Evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, scientific reasoning, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa
Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Source
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22Sep 2025 by Post

In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary biology, folk beliefs, fundamentalism, gravity, Human Origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, Parting Shot, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, scientific reasoning, Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, The Story of Testosterone, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan
Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Source
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18Aug 2025 by Post

Materialism Is Sounding Super Tired Lately

"survival of the fittest", cattle, coyote, Evolution, existential problems, fairy tale, food, human life, human mind, Imperfection (book), irrationality, logic, luck, materialism, Nautilus, pop psychology, rationality, reproduction, scientific reasoning, Serendipity (book), Telmo Pievani, Templeton Foundation, threats, __featured3
This sort of cross between a fairy tale and pop psychology helps pop science readers pass the time while listening to the latest announcement of a flight delay. Source
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28Jul 2025 by Post

Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Faith & Science, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, Reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology
That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Source
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11Jun 2025 by Post

Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

Andrew McDiarmid, biologists, Brian Miller, Carl Jung, coincidence, Denyse O'Leary, development, Faith & Science, Greek philosophy, ID The Future, immaterial genome, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, Michael Levin, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, publishers, Raphael, scientific reasoning, synchronicity, Synchronicity (book), Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus
This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Source
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