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New Online Homeschool Class Will Cover Chemistry — And Intelligent Design

I hasten to add that the course is being taught by my wife, Kristin Marais! The class will be a full two-semester course. Read More ›
Adam and Eve
Image: The Temptation and Fall of Eve (cropped), by William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Guide to Understanding Contemporary Models of Human Origins

Are there ways to reconcile the latest scientific evidence with traditional theological views? Read More ›
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Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›
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Photo: Phillip E. Johnson, by Paul Nelson.

PBS, Darwin, and Dover: An Interview with Phillip Johnson

Johnson was one of the only intelligent design proponents interviewed for and included in PBS’s science series NOVA in an episode about the Dover case. Read More ›
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 “What Is a Man?” — New Book Out Today from Nancy Pearcey

Set aside one question of the moment — “What is a woman?” — and turn to another no less important problem that troubles our culture. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›
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Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Repair Trust in Science? In Science Magazine, Forrest Mims Replies

Charles Darwin is an example of a brilliant scientist who was nonetheless an imperfect human with some false ideas. Read More ›
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger dove into population genetics. Read More ›
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Film Festival 2023 — “The Origin of Life”

For our final video, we present the newest video from our series “Long Story Short” which punctures the faulty reasoning behind origin-of-life arguments.  Read More ›

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