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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team.

For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe 

Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and Spencer Klavan on the Book of Nature: Is There an Author?

Intelligent design was the default scientific understanding of nature and the cosmos — until the hostile takeover by Darwinian materialism. Read More ›
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Lennox Sorbo
Photo: Kevin Sorbo and John Lennox, a scene from Against the Tide.

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Read More ›
John Lennox
Photo: John Lennox on Unbelievable, talking with Dave Rubin (screenshot).

Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Read More ›
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William Whewell: Statesman of Science

Are there natural limits to biological change? Is the evidence for design in nature well founded? Read More ›
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Photo: The third-oldest astronomical clock in the world, installed in 1410, in Prague, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Natural and Super-Natural Explanations Work Hand in Hand

Methodological naturalism is the idea that scientists may only invoke unintelligent causes for nature’s history. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA.

As a Physics Professor, I Can Tell You: Wisdom Transcends Intelligent Design

The fine-tuning of the physical parameters, forces, and laws of nature could hardly have been established by a bottom-up approach. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Fabrice Florin from Mill Valley, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible. Read More ›
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Photo credit: BORNTHISWAYMEDIA, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›
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Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?

People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse? Read More ›

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