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René Descartes
Image: René Descartes, after Frans Hals, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›
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Image: John Henry Newman, by John Everett Millais, via Wikimedia Commons.

Teaching Intelligent Design to Revitalize Catholic Education

Many Christian schools teach the same curriculum that secular schools do with some added religious flavoring. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Eric Hedin.

Intelligent Design in Color Vision — A Gift to Us

How different our perception of reality would be if our brains processed visual signals from the optical nerve as only varying shades of beige or pink or grey! Read More ›
Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design

Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded. Read More ›
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New Online Homeschool Class Will Cover Chemistry — And Intelligent Design

I hasten to add that the course is being taught by my wife, Kristin Marais! The class will be a full two-semester course. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Benjamin Lizardo via Unsplash.

Science for Insight or Science for Power?

What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of "knowledge as power" in the computer age. Read More ›
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Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design

Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›
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Photo: Globular cluster NGC 6544, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Lewin, F. R. Ferraro.

Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters

One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe. Read More ›
David Berlinski
Photo: David Berlinski, courtesy of Uncommon Knowledge.

David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself

If scientists thought that life's origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Read More ›
Under the Sea
Photo: Jellyfish galaxy JO206, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team.

Theistic Cosmology and Theistic Evolution — Understanding the Difference

Astronomers have convincingly shown that the laws of nature are sufficient to account for the formation of stars and planetary systems throughout the universe. Read More ›

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