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Berghof
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Our View of Nature Matters; Here’s Why

I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s retreat near the German-Austrian border, where some of the worst atrocities in history were planned. Read More ›
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Denying Darwin: Berlinski and Meyer in Cambridge

These kinds of conversations between Steve Meyer and David Berlinski are usually confined to late night chats when the time zones in Seattle and Paris permit. Read More ›
John Ray
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Meyer and Klavan: The Tradition of British Natural Theology 

As luck would have it, Dr. Meyer joined the conversation from a very special city. Read More ›
Douglas Axe
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Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›
origami crane
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Douglas Axe: We Have an Eye For Detecting Design

“Either you’re with us and on board on these issues or you are anti-science. That is a very unhelpful position for scientists to be taking.” Read More ›
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Photo: Douglas Axe at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Douglas Axe: Science as a Human Enterprise

“The human part of science brings all the baggage and complexity that humans bring to every other discipline in science, and how could it be otherwise?” Read More ›
Edward John Eyre
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Darwin and the “Eyre Affair”: A Speculative Tale

October 7, 1865, saw a revolt break out in Jamaica in which 18 officials and militia men were killed by members of the freed black population. Read More ›
Harvard Museum of Natural History
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Let’s Help Harvard Understand Intelligent Design

It was disappointing to see the inaccurate representation of ID, along with the poor scientific epistemology. Read More ›
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Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

Why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Doug Axe’s research? Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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A Philosopher Takes on Meyer’s God Hypothesis

What was missing until now is a weighing of the philosophical side of Dr. Meyer's argument, on which much depends. Read More ›

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