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Jerry Coyne
materialists
Photo: Jerry Coyne interviewed by Dave Rubin on The Rubin Report (screen shot).

From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum 

Quite honestly, I think we should be grateful to people like Coyne and Hawking, who carry materialism to its logical conclusions. Read More ›
Anne Frank
Ota Benga
Photo: Anne Frank Memorial, Amsterdam, by Håkan Dahlström, via Flickr(cropped).

What Anne Frank and Ota Benga Have in Common

Cruelty and injustice can seem an abstraction, committed against faceless people. Read More ›
Mike Keas
Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›
MLK
Photo: Martin Luther King, 1963, via Wikimedia Commons.

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was sharply critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke forcefully against the idea that humans are the products of a blind material process.  Read More ›
Chengjiang fossil site
Cambrian explosion
Photo: Chengjiang fossil site, courtesy of Illustra Media.

Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News

Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils. Read More ›
Hubble
Hubble’s Law
Photos: Edwin Hubble (above) in 1931, by Johan Hagemeyer (1884-1962) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; Georges Lamaître (below), via Wikimedia Commons.

Proper Credit — Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?

Many leading scientists of the day realized the implication of the cosmic expansion — there was a beginning!  Read More ›
runes
Photo credit: A stone carved with ancient runes, by Lindy Buckley, via Flickr(cropped).

Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory

The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages. Read More ›
choice
Jerry Coyne
Photo credit: Vladislav Babienko via Unsplash.

Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will

Without free will, there is no guilt and there is no innocence. There are merely animals to be managed. Read More ›
Kevin Williamson
Photo: Kevin Williamson, via Upstream Ideas/YouTube.

Kevin Williamson on Intelligent Design

No intellectually challenging idea has attracted more uninformed criticism than ID. Read More ›
Arecibo
intellignet design
Photo: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, via Wikimedia Commons.

Government Funds…Intelligent Design?

“Technosignatures” is just abstruse enough to evade most Congressional waste hunters.  Read More ›

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