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Photo: Center for Science & Culture Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem, courtesy of Dr. Simmons.

Coronavirus Response: Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Design in Nature and Medical Science

One might object that if our immune system were intelligently designed, it would be utterly immune to all pathogens. Read More ›
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Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.”

Echoing the Bible, Cosmos Concludes with a Materialist Origins Myth and Future Heavenly Bliss

Tyson ends his summary of cosmic history with a soaring narrative focused on earth. It sounds like the exalted prose of the book of Genesis. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ingmar H on Unsplash.

Michael Denton Explores the Miracle of Air and Sun

“Whatever the cause and whatever the ultimate explanation, nature appears to be fine-tuned to an astonishing degree for beings of our biology.” Read More ›
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Photo: Ophrys apifera, also known as the “bee orchid,” by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA.

Sex Chromosomes Refuse to Fit One Origins Theory

The designer made the sexual organs of angiosperms, namely, flowers, to be the most spectacularly beautiful structures in biology. Read More ›
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Photo: Lake Erie, by Nicholas [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”

The activists are right about one thing. Rights of nature would be far more effective in impeding development and extracting wealth from the land than the current system. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Adeline Ferolo on Unsplash.

The Shadow of a Science Yet to Be Born

The paper by Tompa and Rose casts a shadow for us, and we need to trace its outline and derive the theory behind the shadow. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-1649c (artist’s imagining), an “Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone,” by NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutte.

An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results

In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed. Read More ›
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Selective focus on a tall, dark lamp post during a snow storm in the pacific northwest woodland
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C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions

Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for? Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer on Physics and Cosmology: Online Course Opens New Frontier for Intelligent Design

In the course, Dr. Meyer covers what he calls the “three discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe.” Read More ›
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Photo: A scene from “Why Our Sun and Atmosphere Appear Intelligently Designed,” with Michael Denton, via Discovery Institute.

For Earth Day, Let’s Appreciate Our Planet’s Intelligent Design

That’s the “new path” I’d recommended, as a counter to the prevailing pessimism of our culture. Read More ›

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