Granville Sewell

Granville Sewell is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He has written four books on numerical analysis, most recently Solving Partial Differential Equation Applications with PDE2D, John Wiley, 2018. In addition to his years at UTEP, he has been employed by Universidad Simon Bolivar (Caracas), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Purdue University, IMSL Inc., The University of Texas Center for High Performance Computing and Texas A&M University, and spent a semester (1999) at Universidad Nacional de Tucuman on a Fulbright scholarship, and another semester (2019) at the UNAM Centro de Geociencias in Queretaro, Mexico.

Archives

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025}

In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design.

Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning

_{Granville Sewell
June 2, 2025}

The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics.

The Paradox of Biological Reproduction

_{Granville Sewell
May 30, 2025}

Reproduction poses a difficult paradox for materialistic science despite the fact that we see it happen every day.

Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design”

_{Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025}

Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.

Georges Lemaȋtre’s Hidden God

_{Granville Sewell
January 30, 2025}

Was Lemaȋtre, who certainly believed in God, suggesting that God deliberately hides himself from us, or just acknowledging the paradox?

Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

_{Granville Sewell
January 29, 2025}

If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles."

To Reject Intelligent Design, Here’s What You Have to Believe

_{Granville Sewell
January 9, 2025}

The prevailing view in science today is that physics explains all of chemistry, and chemistry explains all of biology.

The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable — By Materialist Science

_{Granville Sewell
October 2, 2024}

Seventy years later we are still not close to explaining the origin and development of life in terms of entirely natural (unintelligent) causes.

On Evolution, Mathematicians Need Not Be Silent

_{Granville Sewell
August 20, 2024}

"I know a good many mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists who, like me, are appalled [by] Darwin's explanation for the development of life."

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

_{Granville Sewell
July 9, 2024}

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle.

Introduction to the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
July 1, 2024}

Darwin’s implausible explanation for evolution has become more and more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery.

Novel for Young Adults Highlights the Problem of Pain

_{Granville Sewell
June 19, 2024}

For most people, the main issue in the debate pitting design versus Darwinism is not scientific, but the problem of pain.

The Big Bang Simplified

_{Granville Sewell
May 31, 2024}

Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive.

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024}

This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.”

More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

_{Granville Sewell
December 15, 2023}

Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe.

Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
December 5, 2023}

The slightest changes in almost any of the basic parameters of nature would have led to a universe without stable stars or without stars at all.

How the Supernatural Entered Science

_{Granville Sewell
August 29, 2023}

I recently came across a nice little video which seems to prove that π = 0. Each step seems reasonable.

The Other Unsolved Problem of Evolution

_{Granville Sewell
July 26, 2023}

"With all our advanced technology, we are not close to producing human-engineered self-replicating machines."

In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
July 25, 2023}

Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded.

Yes, Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence — Let’s Hear Some for Darwinian Evolution

_{Granville Sewell
March 5, 2023}

Carl Sagan famously said, “I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”