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How Does the Intelligibility of Nature Point to Design?

Albert Einstein famously remarked that “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…[t]he fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.” Read More ›
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Muslims Should Be Natural Allies of Intelligent Design 

I have been invited to speak at many Islamic Centers throughout the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Read More ›
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The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism

What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist

The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Read More ›
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Nothing New Under the Sun

The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›
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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda

After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and Natural Theology

How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›
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Where and What Is Consciousness?

If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Read More ›
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Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More

Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Read More ›
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Meyer, Krauss, Nelson: UAPs, UFOs, and Panspermia

The fact that we can't identify the UAPs, in light of our own "limited scientific imagination," should not be permitted to manipulate us into a false dilemma. Read More ›

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