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Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›
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Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
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The Singularity that Atheists Try To Evade

The singularity isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the well-supported singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›
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John West: Science’s Debt to Intelligent Design Is Not Just in the Past — But Today

The God hypothesis… Where have I heard that phrase, used by columnist Ross Douthat, before? Read More ›
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Daniel Dennett: The Final Prophet?

Dennett’s approach to human consciousness has not only borne no fruit but it is hard to see how it ever could. Read More ›
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Recovering the Right Brain in a Scientistic Culture

Science and technology were hailed as the saviors of mankind, but instead, they’ve helped to push out crucial aspects of the human experience.  Read More ›
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No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›

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