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Great Minds: Medved, Gelernter Ask, “What Is a Conservative?”

The hypothesis of design in nature is a great idea, none greater, that has fueled the best in culture for millennia. Read More ›
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Preview Stephen Meyer’s Next Book: Register for Dallas Conference Before It Sells Out

There will be walk-up tickets available, provided that the conference is not sold out, and it is headed in that direction now. Read More ›
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The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness 

Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process. Read More ›
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Happy New Year! #1 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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The crumbling foundation of the house. Exposed house foundation with soil erosion.
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#2 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Behe’s Darwin Devolves Topples Foundational Claim of Evolution

The evidence commonly cited to argue for evolution’s ability to drive large-scale transformations is almost always circular. Read More ›
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Photo: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, by Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›
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#4 of Our Top Stories of 2018: A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments

A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›

The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections

A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments. Read More ›
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Photo: Nobel Prize, by Adam Baker, via Flickr (cropped).

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2018: It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›

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