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Darwinizing Beauty

Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›
planetoid
moon rock
Image: A planetoid collides with the early Earth, by Don Davis (work commissioned by NASA) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Earth Rock from the Moon: Treasure in the Lunar Attic Confirms a Design Prediction

The Discovery Principle led me to consider looking to the Moon to study the origin of life empirically. Read More ›
butterfly
scientists
Photo credit: Егор Камелев via Unsplash.

Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating

Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.” Read More ›
E. coli
Darwinism
Image: E. coli bacteria, by Joaquin D Taylor [CC BY 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism — Like Every Other Known Natural Process — Devolves 

Natural selection is not, after all, the one natural process in the universe that can make nature run backward. Read More ›
lunar eclipse
Dark Ages
Photo: In a lunar eclipse, the shape of the Earth, round not flat, is obvious; by Rocky Raybellvia Flickr(cropped).

Listen: “Not Dark Ages After All”

Educated people in the medieval period were well aware that the Earth is round, a fact immediately evident when you see a lunar eclipse. Read More ›
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Warfare Myth
Image credit: Stan Kwan.

Dallas and Westminster Conferences Tackle Science-Religion “Warfare Myth”

As Jay Richards recounts, James Tour was absolutely “on fire” at the Dallas Conference, ferociously critiquing facile materialist origin-of-life theories. Read More ›
Behe Mac
Photo: Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe at the launch of Discovery Institute-Mackenzie at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017.

Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves — When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself

The idea that scientists are like tribal elders, to be respected and never questioned, much less smirked at (God forbid), is one possible perspective. Read More ›
pianist
human exceptionalism
Photo: Ivan Ilić, a concert pianist, by Tibor BBB [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›
SaccharomycescerevisiaeSEM
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›

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