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Physics to God: Rational Arguments for Design in the Universe

Do you recognize the number 1/137.035999206? It might seem arbitrary, but if the fine structure constant were any higher or lower, you might not exist! Read More ›
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Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›
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If You Want Creative Storytelling, Look No Further than Evolutionary Psychology

If evolutionary psychology attempts to explain every behavior, including each behavior’s opposite, can it really explain anything? Read More ›
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Evolution’s Stubborn Icons: Peppered Moths and Miller-Urey Still Shambling Along

By now, you might think that the icons of evolution that Dr. Jonathan Wells wrote about 24 years ago have been put out of our misery. Read More ›
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Molecular Biologist Marci Reeves on the Principles of Scientific Thinking

She uses the analogy of a beautifully frosted cake. The bottom layer is the raw data, while additional layers include interpretation, narrative, and hype. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›
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Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Read More ›
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Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›
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David Berlinski on Human-Chimp Differences, Human Origins, Origin of Life, and More

He challenges Stephen Jay Gould’s idea that the difference between humans and chimps is merely one of degree but not kind, calling this “utterly ridiculous.” Read More ›
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What Cancer Reveals About the Limits of Darwinian Evolutionary Processes

Dr. Karl Krueger explains what led him to become a skeptic of Darwinian evolution and why he thinks ID can better explain the behavior and effects of cancer. Read More ›

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