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Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›
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Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›
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Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first. Read More ›
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Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›
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Dembski and Tour: Why Chance Doesn’t Have a Chance

Proponents of an evolutionary explanation for life and the universe credit natural processes with a seemingly unlimited amount of time and boundless creativity. Read More ›
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The Big Bang Survives Two Tests

M92 is one of about 160 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy and is estimated to contain about 330,000 stars. Read More ›
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Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›
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Meyer: “God and Science, or No God and No Science”

Back in 2021, Stephen Meyer talked with UC San Diego cosmologist and “devout agnostic” Brian Keating. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Comparing Design Evidence in Physics Versus Biology — Is One Stronger than the Other?

The multiverse is nakedly an attempt to save atheism from science. Darwinian theory is less nakedly so. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 7469, by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans.

Joe Rogan, Stephen Meyer: Did Images from Webb Space Telescope Refute the Big Bang?

Joe Rogan is the ideal interviewer for our colleague Stephen Meyer — thoughtful, skeptical, curious about absolutely EVERYTHING. Read More ›

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