Across history and cultures, people have sought to answer the great questions: Where did we come from? Why are we here? What happens next? In response, humanity has formed what we call the great faith traditions — enduring frameworks of trust and devotion that orient lives around what is ultimate. Faith is not the exclusive domain of temples or churches. It simply describes where we place our deepest trust. For many, that trust rests in a personal Creator, a divine order, or transcendent justice. For others, it rests in the creative sufficiency of nature itself — an idea that has emerged more explicitly in recent centuries. Crucially, each of these traditions is supported by its own philosophical grounding, and each ultimately depends on an Entity to explain and sustain reality: a God, a universal principle, a spiritual order, or a conceptual force. Interestingly, the history of Christianity itself illustrates how faith commitments are sometimes named and recognized first by outsiders....
Biological life runs on digital code. Not metaphorically. Literally. DNA uses a four-letter alphabet (A, T, G, C) to encode instructions. It operates as a symbolic, context-sensitive language with syntax, semantics, data compression, error correction, and functional output. It's software running on carbon-based hardware. Where else do we see systems like this? Only where intelligence is behind them. You don’t get operating systems from sandstorms. You don’t get semantic information from chemistry alone. Molecules don’t arrange themselves into executable programs without input from a mind. Evolution tries to bridge this with blind processes: replication, mutation, and selection. But it only works if the system is already running. It can’t explain the origin of code. At some point, you need a compiler. The origin of DNA’s symbolic system is the naturalist’s unsolved problem. The design inference is not about gaps—it’s about positive, testable, causally sufficient explanation. Intelli...