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The Second Law Argument: A Timeline

“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.” Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning and the Problem of Evil

"Cosmopsychism might seem crazy," says philosopher Phillip Goff, "but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the universe became fine-tuned for life." Read More ›
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The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›
Self-Refutation

Naturalism and Self-Refutation

How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›
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Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Newton Understood that Nature Manifests Design of the Highest Order

Some atheists have implicitly claimed Newton as their own. They woefully misunderstand Newton and the Scientific Enlightenment. Read More ›
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#10 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Nobel Laureate Is “80 Percent” Confident in Intelligent Design

He compares design in evolution to human creativity, and concedes that his ideas about ID may not be consistent with traditional theism. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the Advancement of Science

A little-known fact about intelligent design is that the majority of it scientists already perform their work alongside colleagues with differing views. Read More ›
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Science Is Not Simply “What Scientists Do”

I was alarmed to see physicist Sabine Hossenfelder accept as a definition of ”science,” not a method, but merely “what scientists do.” Read More ›

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