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Photo: Dallas skyline, By Robert Hensley (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Steve Meyer: Dallas, a Hub for ID, Will Host a Major Conference This Weekend; Don’t Miss It!

There’s still time to join us for the Dallas Conference — you can pre-register through 5 pm CST, today. Or come as a walk-up. Read More ›
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Darwin Doubting Playwright Matt Chait Returns to the Hollywood Stage

Chait writes smart, concise dialogue on these subjects, and seems to have learned more than a thing or two from biologist Scott Turner’s recent book, Purpose and Desire. Read More ›
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Photo: A patch of weeds, by Erik-Jan Leusink via Unsplash.

Another Push for Plant “Rights”

There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›
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Photo: A image from Fr. Michael Chaberek’s website Aquinas.Design.

Science and Faith — A Report from Colombia

Rick Sternberg and I agreed that this was one of the best conferences we had ever attended. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jonathan Pendleton via Unsplash.

Keeping the Debate Over Undeniable on Track

Hans Vodder is a friend with whom I’ve been enjoying an unfolding discussion for well over a year. Read More ›
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Photo: Benign Golden Rice is shown at the right, by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Don’t Let Anti-GMO Fanatics Thwart Improved Photosynthesis Crops

It is flat-out unreasoning — and in my view, anti-human. Read More ›
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Nancy Pearcey
Image: T.H. Huxley, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Nancy Pearcey on How Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Darwin and Huxley

One historian says Darwin’s naturalism came first, and “only later did he find a theory to validate his convictions.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Erik Christensen, via Wikimedia Commons.

Japanese Whaling and Human Exceptionalism

Japan has quit the International Whaling Commission so that it can resume commercial slaughter of leviathans. Read More ›
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Photo: A red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus), by DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Behe’s New Book, Darwin Devolves — Stunning and Absolutely Convincing

I recently had a lively conversation with a former colleague at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. Read More ›
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Photo: The edge of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA.

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›

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