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Flannery: What Werner Heisenberg Foresaw

“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact these smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense." Read More ›
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Natural Selection: The God that Failed

The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Read More ›
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Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›
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Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
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New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›
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Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”? 

What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Read More ›
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That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›
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The Reformation and Science: No Simple Answers, but Some Clear Foundations

October 31 is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, marked by Martin Luther’s nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the church door at Wittenberg. Read More ›

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