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Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›
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Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›
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No. 10 Story of 2023: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

You would have to be willfully blind, or just stay far away from our major city centers, to miss some of the more obvious signs of the spiritual crisis. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and Spencer Klavan on the Book of Nature: Is There an Author?

Intelligent design was the default scientific understanding of nature and the cosmos — until the hostile takeover by Darwinian materialism. Read More ›
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40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›
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Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Shows

The smartest of invertebrates, the octopus, once again prompts us to rethink what we believe to be the origin of intelligence. Read More ›
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#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” Read More ›
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The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now

It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›
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Herd Immunity, Not Herd Mentality

The “field of public health” is complicit in the worst episode of scientific malfeasance in the 21st century. Read More ›
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New Video Course with Stephen Meyer on Design Science Offers Hope and Stimulation

Many have asked what or whom proponents of intelligent design nominate as the source of the purpose and design that courses through life and the weave of the whole cosmos. Read More ›

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