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Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›
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Near-Death Experiences Cannot Just Be Explained Away

In some cases, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurate, Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis

The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems. Read More ›
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Un-Canceled Science

In one event, the number of people who heard this evidence was more than twice the total number of students who participated in my Boundaries of Science course. Read More ›
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The Christmas Star — A Sign of Design

Part of the difficulty with arriving at a satisfactory theory for the Star stems from a compartmentalized approach. Read More ›
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Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence

As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!” Read More ›
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Coming Soon: The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism 

J. P. Moreland has written prolifically on the soul and the mind/body issue in the past. In this great volume, his views are cogently articulated and defended. Read More ›
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Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson glimpsed in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

Film Festival 2023 — “Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Stupid ‘Stupid Design’ Argument”

Today we are highlighting a video featuring molecular biologist Douglas Axe of Biola University and his response to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›
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Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action

In the first plenary, Stephen Meyer will argue for the existence of an intelligent and transcendent God who has also acted in the course of cosmic history. Read More ›
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Axe: Why Darwinists Hope You Don’t Know Math

Mathematics has been at the foundation of modern challenges to neo-Darwinism, while those challenges are met mostly with handwaving. Read More ›

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