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2019

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Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson

Of course, an allergy to conceding error is not unique to ID opponents, but it is typical of them. Read More ›
Mike Keas
Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

Mike Keas on the Dennis Prager Show, 11 AM Pacific Time

Isn’t it interesting that some laymen are able to interact with the relevant scientific ideas here — Prager does — while others plug their ears and refuse to think about it. Read More ›
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Photo: University of Bologna, the world’s oldest university, by Biopresto [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Lunar eclipse as seen from Seattle, WA, by Diane Medved.

Of Lunar Eclipses and the Dark Ages Myth

Last night Americans across the continent were treated to a most beautiful and informative natural phenomenon. Read More ›
Kevin Williamson
Photo: Kevin Williamson, via Upstream Ideas/YouTube.

Intelligent Design as “Daft Rube-Bait”: Round 2 with Kevin Williamson

“He is saying that critics of Darwin should allow themselves to be abused — by non-scientists like Kevin Williamson — and just take it.” Read More ›
Meyer Metaxas
Photo: Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.

Dallas Conference on Science and Faith Is a Hit, as Meyer, Metaxas, Tour Welcome Surprise Guest

More than a thousand people filled Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas this past weekend. Read More ›
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Rainis Venta [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›
Jerry Coyne
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Photo: Jerry Coyne interviewed by Dave Rubin on The Rubin Report (screen shot).

From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum 

Quite honestly, I think we should be grateful to people like Coyne and Hawking, who carry materialism to its logical conclusions. Read More ›
Anne Frank
Ota Benga
Photo: Anne Frank Memorial, Amsterdam, by Håkan Dahlström, via Flickr(cropped).

What Anne Frank and Ota Benga Have in Common

Cruelty and injustice can seem an abstraction, committed against faceless people. Read More ›
Mike Keas
Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›

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