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Joana Xavier, Skepticism About Design, and a Fable About a Gray Parrot with an iPad

Xavier, of University College London, is a young origin-of-life researcher who has steadily pursued questions of central importance.  Read More ›
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God Hypothesis: In Defense of Stephen Meyer’s Book Title

What Dr. Meyer did was enter the atheist camp, take up their flawed tools, and defeat them with their own weapons. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence

It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings. Read More ›
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Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Read More ›
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Mathematics and the God Hypothesis

There is a classical proof of God’s existence that uses universal concepts such as mathematics, proposed most prominently by St. Augustine. Read More ›
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Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons?

A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›
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Why the Main Argument Against Intelligent Design Is False

As Darwin argued, “we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds." Read More ›
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Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›
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Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, and the God Hypothesis

Stephen Meyer opens his new book with a memorable anecdote about debating Krauss live while battling a fierce migraine. Read More ›
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Meyer, Robinson: Yes, Reason and Materialism CAN Be Separated

The great question behind Steve Meyer's new book is whether world-views can be objectively tested. Read More ›

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