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June 2017

Purpose and Desire

Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire — An Important New Voice in the Evolution Debate

The latest biologist to come out swinging at Darwinism, Dr. Turner is not a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
Earth from ISS

Is the Universe “Rigged” for Life? Conversation with a Theistic Evolutionist, Continued

Random and undirected processes are clearly and obviously incapable of inventing new living things. Read More ›
DOL companion feature

Dembski and Wells’s The Design of Life: Advanced Online Curriculum Available Now!

Delve into the data surrounding the origin of life, specified and irreducible complexity, genetics, the fossil record, human origins, natural selection, and more. Read More ›
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Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›
Illinois State Capitol
Illinois
Photo: Illinois State Capitol, by Meagan Davis (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Illinois Compels MDs to Discuss Abortion “Benefits”

I have predicted that “medical conscience” will become a huge social controversy in the next decade. Read More ›
Blue Ice, South Greenland

Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios

This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason. Read More ›
Sahara Desert

Undeniable? A Conversation with Theistic Evolutionist Hans Vodder

Suppose I were to place a small diamond just below the surface of the sand in the Sahara Desert, and you were to set out to find it. Read More ›
Origins

Escape from Randomness: Can Foldons Explain Protein Functional Shapes?

Faced with impossible odds, materialists struggle to find natural laws that can fold a protein correctly the way life does. Read More ›

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