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In the Year of the Declaration’s 250th, Condemning Slavery in the Name of a “Vibe”?

How urgent this book’s message is was brought home to me over the weekend in a conversation with a bright young man. Read More ›
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In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›
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Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›
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Photo: Thomas Jefferson Building, detail, by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

John West: The Science Underlying the American Founding

Notice that Jefferson held this “without appeal to revelation.” That is, the study of nature alone was sufficient to produce “a conviction of design.” Read More ›
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Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›
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Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Read More ›
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Photo credit: "Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula," by ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov.

Historical Reasoning, Modern Science: A Conversation with Winston Ewert

Dr. Ewert and I dive into the rich history of how early Christian thinkers engaged with the scientific consensus of their time. Read More ›
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Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›
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The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God

The “Laws of Nature” are those truths about reality that all well-formed human beings have access to through observation, reason, and conscience. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Read More ›

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