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Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
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Long Story Short Detonates Propaganda About the Origin of Life

These popular origin-of-life videos subordinate science to ideology. Accurate science clearly contradicts their teaching. Read More ›
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On the Origin of Life, Long Story Short Goes After Pop YouTube Science

“It’s easy to say things that aren’t true and get people to believe them, especially when they sound science-y and are mixed in with well-known facts.” Read More ›
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Photo: Ann Gauger in "The Problem with Theistic Evolution," via Crossway.

Grand Design: Biologist Ann Gauger Discusses the Catholic Case for ID

Gauger gives a summary of the book’, tells how she found her way into the intelligent design fold, and explains why Catholics should reject evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Revealing God’s Grandeur — Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Teachings of the Catholic Church

The last few chapters deal with subjects that theistic evolutionists like to use against ID: Aristotle, Aquinas, and randomness. Read More ›
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New Book Offers the CATHOLIC Case for Intelligent Design

The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, power, and purpose — of its exquisite and intelligent design. Read More ›
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James Tour on Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

Tour doesn’t argue researchers will never be able to design a cell from non-living matter. He does say that if it is achieved, it will be well into the future. Read More ›
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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›
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Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
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Photo: A horned lizard, by Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities

How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor? Read More ›

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