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DNA
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Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Read More ›
Cueva de Ardales
Photo: Cueva de Ardales, © João Zilhão, ICREA, via EurekAlert!

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›
Long Story
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New Episode of “Long Story” Tackles the Origin of Life — Live Premiere on August 17

According to a bedtime story popular with materialists, unguided forces alone can explain the coming into existence of the very first cell. Read More ›
Earthrise
Earth
Photo: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image (2015), by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University [Public domain].

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we can roll up our sleeves and save our planet. Read More ›
wave
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Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›
Lyell_1840
Image: Charles Lyell in 1840, by Alexander Craig, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer vs. Croft: Vying for the Lyellian Mantle

Stephen Meyer has aligned himself in spirit with the geologist Charles Lyell, who explained geological features “by reference to causes now in operation." Read More ›
Detroit
Photo credit: John West.

Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Read More ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Jay Richards: God, Carl Sagan, and Word Games

When the vast majority of people speak about God, they have in mind a powerful, conscious Creator. Sagan plays games by redefining the meaning of “God.” Read More ›
baby and puppy
Photo credit: Chris Price, via Flickr (cropped).

God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Read More ›

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