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Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Cathal Cummins, University of Edinburgh, via EurekAlert!

Flight: The Genius of Seeds

Plant seeds come equipped to spread themselves in ways that baffle engineers. Did they invent these mechanisms by chance? Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head

“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Feynman in 1984, © Tamiko Thiel (OTRS communication from photographer) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True

The dual wave and particulate aspects of light, essential to our ability to see, and so much else, must all be just right to within insanely precise parameters. Read More ›
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To Refute Materialism, Consider a Chocolate Sundae

Either a mind through free will alone may cause scientifically measurable change in the physical world, or we are forced back to embrace blather. Read More ›
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With Screenings in Chicago, New Documentary Human Zoos Prompts Discussion, Debate

The film shows how a number of Christians led opposition to both human zoos and eugenics. Read More ›
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Dennis Prager on Evolution: Stephen Meyer Turned Me Around

Oh, it’s very difficult to concede that you were mistaken about something. Especially, I would say, for males. Read More ›
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Human Computation — A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design

As Denyse O’Leary asks, “Why is it comparatively easy to develop a program to play chess, as opposed to teaching a robot to walk freely?” Read More ›
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Denton: Science on Venus?

NASA has announced a scheme to fly manned airships in the upper atmosphere of the otherwise “hellish” planet. Read More ›

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