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Norman Stone
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Director Norman Stone Talks About His New C. S. Lewis Film — Which Is Much More than a Biography

There are some very creative aspects of the movie, and Stone is quite a thoughtful artist. Read More ›
Satan
Image credit: Gustave Doré, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›
Metrosideros
Photo: Metrosideros polymorpha, Kalapana, Hawaii, by Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Read More ›
Neanderthal
Photo: A Neanderthal, by Paul Hudson, via Flickr (cropped).

Human Origins — The Scientific Imagination at Play

Not surprisingly, the transition from ape to man is the first, second, and third image produced by a Google image search for the term "evolution." Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, by Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by Hans Wild/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images).

C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason

Naturalists, like everyone else, generally trust their reason to lead them to truth. Read More ›
rainbow
Photo credit: Austin Schmid, via Unsplash.

Do We Live on a Privileged Planet?

Yes, rainbows are beautiful, but are they good for anything? Indeed, they have been very important for science. Read More ›
MOLO RNA world
Image credit: Brian Gage.

New Animated Video Dismantles Origin-of-Life Hype

The origin of the first life required not merely design, but an ingenious designing intelligence far beyond that of our smartest origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by © Norman Parkinson Archive/Iconic Images/Getty Images).

Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection

Lewis first read Bergson in France during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds from the front-lines, and the experience on Lewis was profound. Read More ›
Francis-Collins
Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Casey Luskin examines the evidence. Read More ›
Three_Wise_Monkeys,Tosho-gu_Shrine
Photo credit: Michael Maggs, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Read More ›

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