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Luskin: Why Intelligent Design over Theistic Evolution?

Casey Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired by the intelligent design framework. Read More ›
La Pasiega Cave
Photo: La Pasiega Cave, by Don Hitchcock, donsmaps.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. Read More ›
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Count the Stars: Webb Space Telescope and the God Hypothesis

I was listening to the Dennis Prager Show and found to my delight that his guest was our friend Brian Keating, the distinguished UC San Diego cosmologist. Read More ›
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Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›
St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park
Photo: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›
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The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today

Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Johannes Kepler, his assistant. Read More ›
Mother Earth
Image: Mother Earth, via Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›
Mother Earth
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Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›
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The Difference Between Humans and Machines

Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›
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Marks, Dembski: AI Hype and the “Illusion of Possibility”

The materialist agenda is served by AI hype, while the human mission is damaged. And that is what is at stake. Read More ›

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