William Paley – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

05Nov 2026 by Post

SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Nextdoor Neighbors of Intelligent Design

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What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND. Source

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

10Jul 2026 by Post

Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

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Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Source

16Dec 2025 by Post

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Source

05Apr 2024 by Post

Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

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Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature. Source

01Dec 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

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All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Source

17Nov 2023 by Post

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

academia, Darwinists, Education, Evolution, freedom, ID The Future, intelligence, Intelligent Design, mathematicians, philosophy, Podcast, randomness, Technology, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, William Dembski, William Paley

Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Source

12Feb 2023 by Post

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

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Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Source

16Jan 2023 by Post