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Ford Model T and VW type 11 Luxus at the Vienna Technical Museum.
Photo: A Volkswagen Beetle compared with its evolutionary ancestor, a Ford Model T, by Manfred Werner - Tsui [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

I Believe in the Evolution of Life and the Evolution of Automobiles

We talk about the “evolution” of automobiles, yet we know there was design at every stage of this evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: David Berlinski and Mark Levin, screen shot from Fox News, “David Berlinski on the link between evolution, science and progressivism.”

With Mark Levin on Fox News, David Berlinski Talks “Evolution, Science, Progressivism”

I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV. Read More ›
Keating

Multiple Problems with the Multiverse

In a new PragerU video, this is quite a strong statement from UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›
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Image credit: TheDigitalArtist, via Pixabay.

Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers

Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both. Read More ›
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Image: Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (1887), by Viktor Vasnetsov [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Protein Folding and the Four Horsemen of the Axocalypse

A recent series of critiques, published by the online journal Sapientia, was aimed at Doug Axe’s book, Undeniable. Read More ›
Seattle ID Edu Day
Photo: ID Education Day in Seattle.

This Year’s ID Education Days Were a Smash Success

Many high school students are eager to go beyond the brief and airbrushed presentation of evolutionary theory found in their biology textbooks, and are full of questions. Read More ›
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Photo: Orestis Palermos, screen shot via Coursera.

Less Pseudo, More Science, Please

Cardiff University philosopher Orestis Palermos was at the center of a stir last week for a claim he made in an online lecture. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer on the Biola campus with Scott B. Rae and Sean McDowell, by Daniel Reeves.

Design Debate in a Nutshell: Mind Over Matter? Or Matter Over Mind?

Steve Meyer was in Southern California recently and stopped by the campus of Biola University where he sat down for a podcast conversation. Read More ›
Stephen Hawking's Universe

“Spontaneous Creation”: Meyer on Stephen Hawking’s Category Error

He asked poignantly in A Brief History of Time, “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Read More ›
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John Lennox: The Irony of Stephen Hawking’s Atheism

A universe from nothing, for materialists, may be the single largest problem, among a variety of others. Read More ›

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