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Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Read More ›
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The Magician’s Twin: A Conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

Citing C. S. Lewis, Dr. Meyer calls the drama of materialism’s unravelling a kind “repentance.” Read More ›
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Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›
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Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›
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Wallace notebooks
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Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›
Aristotle
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Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Read More ›
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Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain

When it comes to causation, there are only two classes of causal forces; those are material causes and intelligent causes. Read More ›
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Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›
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Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order. Read More ›

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