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Jasper van der Meij
Photo credit: Jasper van der Meij via Unsplash and Aquinas.Design. 

What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense? Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Hawking in 2008, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is It Impious to Laugh at Stephen Hawking’s Thoughts on Religion?

Rabbi Moshe Averick concludes, “If he did physics that way his university would have fired him.” Read More ›
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Photo: On his visit to South Africa, Brian Miller took the opportunity to pet a friendly cheetah.

Intelligent Design in South Africa: Brian Miller and Ray Bohlin Report

South Africa is less infused with materialistic philosophy than Europe or America’s research universities. This means an open door for ID. Read More ›
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Image: An oocyte, from “Conception to birth — visualized,” via YouTube (screen shot).

Why Evolution and Reproduction Are Unnatural

Reproduction is the most fundamental characteristic of life. We see it happen everywhere, so we may feel there is nothing “unnatural” about it.  Read More ›
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Photo: A bust of Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck Society, Germany, via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” — Wait, What?

One might add that this analysis applies to the world of life as a whole. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Hawking, by NASA/Kim Shiflett [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Pearcey: “Stephen Hawking’s Final Salvo”

A new book is out under his name. The first chapter asks, “Is there a God?” Answer: No. Read More ›
Richard-Feynman
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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Stephen Meyer’s Next Frontier: The Return of the God Hypothesis

Meyer is well known as a leading proponent of ID, the scientific alternative to theories of unguided evolution. He talks here about his exciting and important next book. Read More ›
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Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve?

Darwinian evolution, even in its 21st-century form, fails the formidable task of explaining how the first enzyme arose. Read More ›
J.P. Moreland
Photos: J.P. Moreland, John West lecturing at the 2018 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, by Daniel Reeves.

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Expand Students’ Intellectual Horizons

A primary reason why many biologists never question the standard evolutionary model is their very limited training in mathematics. Read More ›

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