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David Klinghoffer

Dawkins
Dawkins
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Dawkins Is Knocked “Sideways with Wonder” by Cell’s Design

Yes, he doesn't call it "intelligent design," of course, and I'm confident he would deny the cell is designed. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?

That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively. Read More ›
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Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
Michael Shermer
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“This Is Not Your Father’s Creationism”: Atheist Michael Shermer Meets Stephen Meyer

Every cosmology either has theistic implications, or ends up wrecking the basis for rational scientific investigation of nature. Read More ›
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Image source: NASA Goddard/Jeremy Schnittman/Scott Noble.

No Wonder Atheists Resist the Big Bang

Combined with the evidence of information periodically infused into biology, the observation of a start to the universe goes beyond generic intelligent design. Read More ›
Bible
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Requesting a (Partial) Retraction from Darrel Falk and BioLogos

Why an avowedly Christian group would have its guns out for the God hypothesis is an interesting question from a psychological perspective. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Meyer: Is the Author of Nature’s Design Good? And Other Questions

We have an exceptionally woke Congregational church in the neighborhood that has a marquee out front whose contents I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
materialists
Photo: Lawrence Krauss, in Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Our Debt to the Scientific Atheists

Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins are right that the question about God's existence is also a question about science, and can be adjudicated as such. Read More ›
Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Read More ›

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