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Rizwan Virk
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MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design

Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.” Read More ›
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Image: Detail from The School of Athens, by Raphael [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

Philosophers Want Back into Science

One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›
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Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›
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Egnor
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Egnor Considers the Confession of a Panpsychist

Durham University philosopher Philip Goff poses the question, “Could Electrons Be Conscious?” Read More ›
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Jerry Coyne
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Scientists Probe Stupidity; What Would We Do Without Scientists?

In their own scientific research, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger have offered the Dunning-Kruger effect. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe in Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

Darwin Devolves: Another Huge Advance Against Darwinism and for Intelligent Design

This book is built on solid science. It’s going to be harder than ever for critics to spit it out just because they don’t like its taste. Read More ›
Jasper van der Meij
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What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense? Read More ›
Mike Keas
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Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›
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Nancy Pearcey
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Listen: Nancy Pearcey on How Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Darwin and Huxley

One historian says Darwin’s naturalism came first, and “only later did he find a theory to validate his convictions.” Read More ›
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Image: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, by Jakob Schlesinger, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nancy Pearcey Answers the Charge: “You Guys Lost”

“Without Hegel there would have been no Darwin,” Pearcey explains. Read More ›

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