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Photo credit: Fuzz, via Pixabay.

Intelligent Design and Other “Sensitive Topics”

Do you self-censor? Would you tell your coworkers what you think about immigration, gender issues, or evolution? Read More ›
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Photo credit: jasongillman, via Pixabay.

Drug Our Drinking Water with Lithium?

If we really want to reduce suicide — and sometimes I wonder if we do — we will increase our focus on mental health as a top-tier societal priority. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Stephen Meyer interviewing Michael Medved, by Nathan Jacobson.

Great Minds: Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved See Design in the Lives of Washington, Lincoln

What’s behind the impression of intelligent direction? Just a trick of perspective, like seeing shapes in clouds? Read More ›
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Photo: J.P. Moreland, at a launch event today for book Theistic Evolution, in Providence, R.I., by Doug Axe.

Scientism: Irrational, Self-Refuting, and Contradictory

Yet it hangs over and around all of us like the air we breathe, says philosopher J.P. Moreland in a new book reviewed by Tom Gilson. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Cathal Cummins, University of Edinburgh, via EurekAlert!

Flight: The Genius of Seeds

Plant seeds come equipped to spread themselves in ways that baffle engineers. Did they invent these mechanisms by chance? Read More ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head

“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›
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Photo: Doctor draws blood while explaining the importance of voter registration, by Linda Bartlett [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 

Physicians Should Prescribe Pills, not Politics

The last thing sick people need while being admitted to a hospital is a nurse or clerk trying to get out the vote. 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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To Refute Materialism, Consider a Chocolate Sundae

Either a mind through free will alone may cause scientifically measurable change in the physical world, or we are forced back to embrace blather. Read More ›

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