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Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›
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Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›
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Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos? Read More ›
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That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›
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Watch: Preview Stephen Meyer’s New Book — The Return of the God Hypothesis

A young woman wept at realizing that there was a rational, objective, scientific response to the scientific atheism she had been fed by her professors in college. Read More ›
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Photo at the top: Adolf Grünbaum, a screenshot from “GrunbaumEngage,” a tribute by the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Opposition Is True Friendship: A Remembrance of Adolf Grünbaum (1923-2018)

How an atheist philosopher of science mentored an intelligent design theorist. Read More ›
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Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›
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Weikart on C-SPAN: Jefferson, Russell, Hitler, Pianka, and More

Kudos to interviewer Peter Slen who is utterly unreadable as to his own attitudes on any on this. Read More ›

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