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Axe: Why Darwinists Hope You Don’t Know Math

Mathematics has been at the foundation of modern challenges to neo-Darwinism, while those challenges are met mostly with handwaving. Read More ›
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Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable

A number of theories as to how life could have originated through entirely unintelligent processes have been proposed, but none are plausible. Read More ›
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Edgar Allan Poe — Scientist

In order to think scientifically, you must have an advanced degree in science. Right? Read More ›
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Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Read More ›
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Is the Designer a Black Hole?

Supernatural agents that exert natural effects are perfectly valid objects of scientific inquiry. Read More ›
An Interstellar Distributor
Photo: ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Stanghellini.

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Read More ›
Alpha Centauri
Photo: Alpha Centauri, where aliens come from, by ESO/DSS 2, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All

Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more. Read More ›
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If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›
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Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis

"I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science." Read More ›
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ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We’re Living in Computer Simulation

Of course, an 80 percent chance that we live in an intelligently design world compares favorably with only a 50 percent chance. Read More ›

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