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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 ›
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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 ›
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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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Image credit: insspirito, via Pixabay.

Is Free Will an Illusion?

if we are wholly matter, and matter is wholly governed by physical law, there is no room for free will. Read More ›
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Photo: Mars, by European Space Agency & Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research for OSIRIS Team [CC BY-SA 3.0-igo ], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Paper by Winston Ewert Demonstrates Superiority of Design Model

Winston Ewert’s results are a Copernican Revolution moment. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Isaac Newton (bust), in the British Museum, by Aaron Bradley, via Flickr.

Commonweal Misrepresents Isaac Newton, Intelligent Design

Newton was arguing from science, not religion. But that doesn’t fit the Epicurean mythos that religion opposes naturalism while science confirms it. Read More ›

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