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Image: An illustration from H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, by Henrique Alvim Correa [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Mike Keas: Modern-Day Atheism Meets the Occult

Keas describes the surprisingly religious role played by much atheistic science fiction. The discussion includes 2001: A Space Odyssey and H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Read More ›
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Photo: Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Michael Behe: Darwinists Are “Famously Slow to Recognize Problems for Their Theory”

He is waiting patiently for them to catch up. Read More ›
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Photo: Chinese Han characters, by Michael Coghlan, via Flickr (cropped).

Listen: Gauger on the Limits of Evolutionary Optimization

Biologist Ann Gauger explains how she and Douglas Axe tested popular hypotheses for protein origins. Read More ›
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Image: Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition, by Cristiano Banti / Public domain.

Listen: Did Galileo Prove the Catholic Church’s Irrational Opposition to Science?

There’s plenty here for both scientists and theologians to learn — as well as anyone who thinks Galileo shows the Church was at war against science. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Photo: Monument to Giordano Bruno, Rome, by Francesca Soria [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Science and Storytelling

To advance the false conception that science is always in conflict with religious tradition, some influential scientists and science popularizers tell us stories about the past and the present. Read More ›
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Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger

“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.” Read More ›
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Listen: Eclipse Led to the Privileged Planet Thesis

A perfect solar eclipse like the one on Monday was the inspiration for The Privileged Planet, an important and unusual book in the canon of intelligent design works. Read More ›

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