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A Meaningful World

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Jonathan Witt: More than Just “Bare” Design, Nature Reveals Cosmic Genius

Like a matryoshka doll, nature displays its depths in a hidden manner, not just on the surface. Read More ›
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Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry. Read More ›
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Photo: Saturn’s North Pole hexagon, via NASA/JPL-Caltech, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Reveals Not Just Design but Genius

After studying the hallmarks of genius in humans, Witt and Wiker looked for the same characteristics in nature. Read More ›
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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism

“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution,” he said. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God.” Read More ›
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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 ›
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The Scientist Who Shouldn’t Exist — New Book by Matti Leisola, Jonathan Witt 

"What happens when an up-and-coming European bioscientist flips from Darwin disciple to Darwin defector?" Read More ›
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Photo: Solar eclipse, January 6, 2011, by Hinode via NASA.

Top ID Thinkers Jay Richards, Jonathan Witt Will Cover the Eclipse via Facebook

"There is some kind of primordial connection that we have to eclipses that is very hard to account for." Read More ›

High Praise for A Meaningful World

What’s the single book that you would most like your friends to read? According to U.K. pro-ID blogger Exiled from Groggs, it is Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt’s book A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature. According to the reviewer, formerly at Cambridge, “Of all the books on the great debate that I have read – and there are a fair few on both sides! – this is probably the one I have enjoyed the most, and the one which ought ideally to have the most potential to influence.” He goes on to explain why: Wiker and Witt’s thesis is that the universe is rich in “meaning” – the dominance of the materialist worldview Read More ›

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