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Steady and Consistent Growth: The Real Story of Intelligent Design

Snowballs start small. But they grow steadily over time, and after a while they really start to get large and pick up speed. Read More ›
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Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco, but Mischaracterizes It

The headline is glaringly inaccurate. It says, “University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent.” Read More ›
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Positive and Near-Positive Aspects of Designer Science

In C. W. Howell’s mind, intelligent design is still recovering from the Dover trial, and if there’s evidence to the contrary, he doesn’t want to see it. Read More ›
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C. W. Howell in Context: A Brief History of Histories

One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Read More ›
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Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Read More ›
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Geoffrey Simmons: Man’s Beginning — And His End?

Have you ever read a book in which both the origin and end of man hang in the balance? That’s a rare combination that comes together in a new thriller novel. Read More ›
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The Narrative Will Rock — But Not if C. W. Howell Can Help It

Dr. Shedinger, in Dr. Howell’s own field, could have saved him some trouble by looking at his scholarship more carefully than Howell’s own academic reviewers. Read More ›
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Is Intelligent Design the Root of All Science Skepticism?

As author C. W. Howell puts it, various ID proponents have sometimes committed the thought crime of “doubting the science consensus outside evolution." Read More ›
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Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science Now Gone from Multiple Sites

The lack of scrutiny and skepticism by professional academics reflects a crisis of its own. Read More ›
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Fighting a Battle That’s Over, and ID Won, Designer Science Omits Key Portions of ID’s History

I want to be fair to Howell, but I also want to be fair to my colleagues who have worked hard developing and publishing new ID arguments over the past 20 years. Read More ›

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