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Epicurus
Photo: Epicurus, in The Louvre, by Sting, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Epicurus Smiling?

Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel via Unsplash.

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel via Unsplash.

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›
Martin Luther King
Photo: Martin Luther King, 1963, via Wikimedia Commons.

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

I have no idea what King would have thought of the modern theory of intelligent design, but many of the ideas he expressed are certainly friendly to ID. Read More ›

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he spoke forcefully against the idea that we are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›
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Photo: Post-screening discussion at First Baptist Church, Athens, TX

Seeking Racial Reconciliation in the Heart of Texas at a Screening of Human Zoos

I love taking part in post-screening discussions of my films because I get to hear and learn from perspectives different from my own. Read More ›
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From Darwinism to Dataism: Will We Lose Democracy to Techno-Religion?

When tyranny comes it often is introduced as some improvement, or as the correction of some perceived problem. Read More ›

Groups That Laugh Together Stay Together

Evolutionists group species by similarities, thinking this reveals patterns of common descent. Then they find another similarity (not surprisingly with the same pattern) and they conclude it must have evolved. After all, it fits the pattern.
The logic is laughable, and here’s a funny example. Evolutionists are now concluding that laughter evolved in a common ancestor of the great apes and humans. And how do they figure this? First, they tickled 22 apes and three humans (your tax dollars at work). Then they discovered similarities. As the BBC reports:

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Need Summer Reading? Try These Books

Before you head to the beach this summer, don’t forget to grab a few good books. Over at ID the Future, I’ve attempted to aid you by interviewing a number of authors with new books out this month. You can listen to these authors discuss their books and judge for yourself what is most interesting: First, I interviewed J. Budziszewski on his latest book on natural law theory, The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction. Second, see my interview with Benjamin Wiker on his new biography The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin. Third, check out this interview with John Mark Reynolds on his new introduction to classical and Christian Read More ›

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