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Apollo 17
Photo credit: Apollo 17/NASA.

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?

Biologist Michael Denton's structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things. Read More ›
leaves
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Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›
DNA
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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›
Roger Penrose
Photo: Roger Penrose, by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
Jupiter
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As a Physics Professor, I Can Tell You: Wisdom Transcends Intelligent Design

The fine-tuning of the physical parameters, forces, and laws of nature could hardly have been established by a bottom-up approach. Read More ›
Sagittarius C
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia).

A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›
Curiosity rover
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve

Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole. Read More ›
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Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Read More ›
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New Long Story Short Video Examines Information and the Origin of Life

Does the required information for life come from purely natural processes, or from an intelligent mind?  Read More ›

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