Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2019

lunar eclipse
Dark Ages
Photo: In a lunar eclipse, the shape of the Earth, round not flat, is obvious; by Rocky Raybellvia Flickr(cropped).

Listen: “Not Dark Ages After All”

Educated people in the medieval period were well aware that the Earth is round, a fact immediately evident when you see a lunar eclipse. Read More ›
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Warfare Myth
The Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, photo by Stan Kwan.

Dallas and Westminster Conferences Tackle Science-Religion “Warfare Myth”

As Jay Richards recounts, James Tour was absolutely “on fire” at the Dallas Conference, ferociously critiquing facile materialist origin-of-life theories. Read More ›
Behe Mac
Photo: Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe at the launch of Discovery Institute-Mackenzie at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017.

Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves — When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself

The idea that scientists are like tribal elders, to be respected and never questioned, much less smirked at (God forbid), is one possible perspective. Read More ›
pianist
human exceptionalism
Photo: Ivan Ilić, a concert pianist, by Tibor BBB [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›
SaccharomycescerevisiaeSEM
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›
Keas and beaker

In Unbelievable, Science Historian Michael Keas Debunks the Atheist “Big Myth”

Hawking, Nye and other atheists argue that because the universe is so large, a God interested in a relationship with us seems impossible. Read More ›
C.S. Lewis
intelligent design
Photo: C.S. Lewis, statue, Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Genvessel [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

On Intelligent Design, Do Your Own Homework. Make Up Your Own Mind.

C.S. Lewis encountered an objection to his literary criticism analogous to Kevin Williamson’s and explored its underlying logic. Read More ›
Darwin statue
intelligent design
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Natural History Museum, London, by Bruno Martins via Unsplash.

Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science

Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.” Read More ›

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