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Motivated Irrationality: Why Even Smart People Swallow Crackpot Ideas

A critic will just fling out an objection, intelligent design thinkers will reply, and the reply is totally ignored. 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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Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It?

Ancient and medieval thinkers possessed impressive reasoning powers despite lacking modern technology and data. Read More ›
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Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. 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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Dr. Luskin on Human/Chimp Genetic Differences and Why They Matter

I invited one of Discovery Institute’s premier scholars to discuss new findings and the meaning of it all. Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›
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The Human Body’s “Ultimate Engineering”: New Book Available for Pre-Order Now

Evolution prompts us to expect in our bodies a grab bag of botched experiments conducted by blind, purposeless natural groping.  Read More ›
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Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

Is the world a good place? Is truth relative? Can beauty be defined? David Klinghoffer talks with Dr. Ann Gauger. Read More ›

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