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Alvin Plantinga

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Before Darwin, How Maxwell’s Intelligent Design Argument Forecast Modern ID

He was well versed in the evolutionary literature as well as in design arguments from antiquity to his day. Read More ›
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Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›
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No. 3 Story of 2024: Richard Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›
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The War on 2 + 2 = 4

The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›
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How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes.  Read More ›
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Michael Behe Answers More Reasonable Objections to Intelligent Design

Behe and Pat Flynn tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. Read More ›
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Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity

Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. Read More ›
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C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason

Naturalists, like everyone else, generally trust their reason to lead them to truth. Read More ›

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