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Francis-Collins
Photo: Francis Collins, by NIH Image Gallery, via Flickr.

#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›
Silent Night
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A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›
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Photo: John Castino in 1983, by Minnesota Twins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Evidence of a Creator Bring Hope?

John Castino's life spiraled out of control. His faith in God was based on his feelings, and so when times turned bad, he lost his faith. Read More ›
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Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Read More ›
Young C. S. Lewis
Photo: A young C. S. Lewis, in a science from The Most Reluctant Convert.

Humanity: Natural Selection’s Ultimate Challenge According to C. S. Lewis 

How could a blind material process produce man’s unique capabilities of reason and conscience?  Read More ›
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Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Celestial Images).

C. S. Lewis and Theistic Evolution

Biological development is either the result of an unintelligent material process or a process guided by a mind, aka intelligent design. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by © Norman Parkinson Archive/Iconic Images/Getty Images).

Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection

Lewis first read Bergson in France during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds from the front-lines, and the experience on Lewis was profound. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration 

The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Read More ›
Max McLean as C. S. Lewis
Photo: Max McLean as C. S. Lewis, via The Most Reluctant Convert.

Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3

The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe. Read More ›
Francis-Collins
Photo: Francis Collins, by NIH Image Gallery, via Flickr.

Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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