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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Survey Artificially Inflates the Percentage of Americans who “Accept Evolution”

Whether their question was chosen intentionally to inflate the degree of support for “evolution,” I cannot say. Read More ›
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The Return of Teleology to Biology

Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Stephen Meyer: “Into the Impossible” with Brian Keating

Meyer answered philosophical, spiritual, and quite personal questions from Professor Keating on his podcast, "Into the Impossible." Read More ›
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Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments

They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek. Read More ›
Taking Leave of Darwin
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Neil Thomas: Not at All THAT Sort of Person

He is not at all THAT sort of person, the kind one might expect to find waging a campaign against modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›
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Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›
New York Times
New York Times
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Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”? 

What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Read More ›
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Israel
Photo: Stephen Meyer, by Daniel Reeves.

Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Read More ›

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