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Free Speech and Intelligent Design’s Warning

The censors came for us first, and no one protested. Now they’re coming for you. Indeed, they are coming for Charles Darwin himself. Read More ›
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

Theistic Darwinism’s “Fully Gifted” Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science

Theistic evolutionists treat God as time-bound when it suits their argument, and beyond time when it suits their argument. Read More ›
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college campus
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If Your Free Speech Is Threatened, Let Us Know

As the school year starts, I’m wondering how many students and professors will find themselves in difficult positions. Read More ›
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Image credit: Execution of Marie Antoinette, Unknown author / Public domain.

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Read More ›
Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Dembski: “Recent Studies Have Vindicated Wallace” Over Darwin

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›
Richard-Sternberg
Photo: Richard Sternberg, by Nathan Jacobson.

Andrew Sullivan, Meet Richard Sternberg

This is another illustration of what Michael Egnor and others have said: intelligent design was the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to cancel culture. Read More ›
Michelangelo's David
Michelangelo's David
Photo: David, by Michelangelo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Only Wallace’s “Intelligent Evolution” Can Explain the Kingdoms of Speech and Faith

In 2016 the late great journalist, novelist, and social commentator Tom Wolfe exposed Darwin’s unsolved riddle, or one of them anyway. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, by London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company (active 1855-1922) / Public domain.

Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition

On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Image: C. S. Lewis, by Anca Budisan.

C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientism’s Totalitarian Potential

According to Lewis, science steps dangerously outside its bounds when it assumes it has all knowledge, especially moral knowledge. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Image: C. S. Lewis, by Anca Budisan.

C. S. Lewis Criticized Scientism, Not Science

Scientism is the idea that science is the ultimate path to knowledge and wisdom — the only sure path — and that the spiritual realm is a mirage. Read More ›

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