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Ghost Nebula
Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Aaron Lee via Unsplash.

Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Christianity Help or Hinder the Rise of Science?

Melissa Cain Travis explains why her new course gives special attention to the “warfare thesis,” a late-19th-century idea championed by materialists. Read More ›
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Photo: Steven Weinberg in 2014, by Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Read More ›
soda lake
Photo: A soda lake, by Zachary R. Cohen, via EurekAlert! (no restrictions on usage).

From Scientists and Science Media, a Flood of Disinformation

Spending time perusing popular science media outlets can give one the impression that much of science is on the verge of being overturned. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA/Michael Lentz.

A Crowd-Sourced Solar Eclipse Experiment

The Sensor Logger phone app can record and store the readings from any combination of your phone’s sensors. Read More ›
Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition
Image: Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition, by Cristiano Banti / Public domain.

New Course on Science and Christianity Beginning Soon with Melissa Cain Travis

Special attention will be given to long-enduring myths and misconceptions that underpin the so-called “warfare thesis.” Read More ›
Summer Seminar
Photo: Panel discussion at the Summer Seminar, by Nathan Jacobson.

The 2024 Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design Could Be the Highlight of Your Year! 

There’s an eye-opening trend in the applicant pool that we’ve observed over the past few years — it’s an exciting trend but it has an upside and a downside. Read More ›
Physics
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Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin in 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron, via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?

An example of a now-discarded theory is that of spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process of living organisms developing from nonliving matter. Read More ›

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