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Photo: A image from Fr. Michael Chaberek’s website Aquinas.Design.

Science and Faith — A Report from Colombia

Rick Sternberg and I agreed that this was one of the best conferences we had ever attended. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jonathan Pendleton via Unsplash.

Keeping the Debate Over Undeniable on Track

Hans Vodder is a friend with whom I’ve been enjoying an unfolding discussion for well over a year. Read More ›
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Photo: Benign Golden Rice is shown at the right, by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Don’t Let Anti-GMO Fanatics Thwart Improved Photosynthesis Crops

It is flat-out unreasoning — and in my view, anti-human. Read More ›
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Image: T.H. Huxley, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Nancy Pearcey on How Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Darwin and Huxley

One historian says Darwin’s naturalism came first, and “only later did he find a theory to validate his convictions.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Erik Christensen, via Wikimedia Commons.

Japanese Whaling and Human Exceptionalism

Japan has quit the International Whaling Commission so that it can resume commercial slaughter of leviathans. Read More ›
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Photo: A red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus), by DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Behe’s New Book, Darwin Devolves — Stunning and Absolutely Convincing

I recently had a lively conversation with a former colleague at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. Read More ›
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Photo: The edge of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA.

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Sylas Boesten via Unsplash.

On Being Human — A Reflection

Evolutionary biologist David Barash is a man on a mission. He wants to make sure that we all know we are only human, and that means we are only animal. Read More ›
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Last Weekend to Register for Dallas Conference on Science and Faith

Here’s an ominous polling result: Students on college campuses in the U.S. increasingly agree that the origin of the universe was a chance event. Read More ›
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Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, by Brocken Inaglory [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL].

Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

Scientists watched microbes inherit extreme acid resistance in Yellowstone hot springs not through genetics, but through epigenetics. Read More ›

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