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Image: Friedrich Nietzsche, by Edvard Munch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sean Carroll Revives Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

The point arrives when a philosophy is so unreasonable, so utterly broken, that one can only give it a good strong kick. Argument fails; one must act. Read More ›
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“Homelessness” Meets the Simulation Theory

"As the late podcaster and 'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams used to say, it was as if the Simulation was 'winking at us.'" Read More ›
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Image: Issac Newton, by William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“ID Takes Center Stage”: Brian Miller on the Meyer/Halper Debate

"Halper is one of the most formidable proponents of atheism, but he also admits that the discussion with Meyer was 'the toughest debate I’ve ever had.'" Read More ›
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Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›
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Photo: Giant squid, by Stephanemartin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life at the Limits of the Possible

Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›
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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Read More ›
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Climate Science Journal Trumpets Glaciers’ “Right to Exist”

Glaciers are made up of snow that over millennia compacted into ice. They grow or shrink based on climate. They are geological features. Read More ›
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The Physics of Alien Life Would Necessitate Intelligent Design

Anyone imagining alien biology, anywhere across the universe, even if it takes unexpected forms, would have to include this expectation. Read More ›
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Photo: Asian elephant, by Yathin S Krishnappa, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›
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Ben Carson, John West: Human Equality in a Neurosurgeon’s View

You could draw a comparison to looking under the hood of your car, versus looking under the hood of mine. Read More ›

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