Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2017

on the rocks
on the rocks
Photo credit: ValerieWillis, via Pixabay.

Science on the Rocks

Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured? Read More ›
Beijing
environmentalism
Photo: Don't breathe! It's a smoggy day in Beijing, People's Republic of China, by 螺钉 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Environmentalism Is Increasingly Anti-Human, Pro-Authoritarian

The dirtiest economies have tended to be Communist ones, such as the old Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. Read More ›
Retro Reports
New York Times

NY Times Permits Intelligent Design Proponents to Speak for Themselves; Yes, Really!

Check it out this video documentary and see for yourself. Admittedly, the bar for our being impressed was very low. Read More ›
Eye design

At Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

In a powerful new short video, we consider the scientific evidence around the question of eye evolution. Read More ›
Chimp typing
human origins
Photo credit: New York Zoological Society [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

What, Another “Rewrite” of the Human Origins Story? How About a Rethink, Instead?

Sometimes predictions are not only fulfilled but over-fulfilled. Read More ›
Jovian Tempest
information
Image: "Jovian Tempest," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›
church
Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion 

No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›
frog and butterfly
design intuition
Photo credit: Frank Winkler, via Pixabay.

Challenge to a Critic of the Design Intuition: How Do You Explain Your Own Use of It?

Previously, I questioned a theistic evolutionist's claim that we can’t rule out chance as an explanation for something unless the probability of chance working can be calculated accurately. Read More ›
CRISPR
genetic engineering
Image credit: Ernesto del Aguila III, NHGRI [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

What Does Gene-Editing with CRISPR Portend for Bioethics?

Wesley Smith describes a range of consequences of viewing human beings as resources to be manipulated and exploited. Read More ›

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