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How Butterflies “Evolve” by Design

Biologists have wondered how the patterns on butterfly wings change.  Read More ›

Springtime Is High Season for Intelligent Design

What complexity there is in our water cycle, which brings life to many organisms and at the same time replenishes and renews itself. Read More ›
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A Debate in California; a Piece of Business

Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass and I spoke on the topic of God and Evolution. Read More ›
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Listen: Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living. Read More ›
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Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›
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Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating

Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.” Read More ›
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Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News

Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils. Read More ›
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The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness 

Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process. Read More ›
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The Chin Enigma

A scientific theory that on principle refuses to see the obvious is an achievement of which only humans are capable. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›

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