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No. 5 Story for 2025: Richard Dawkins Says Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Hypothesis

"I think that the hypothesis of theism is the most exciting scientific hypothesis you could possibly hold." Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Anders Hesselbom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dawkins: Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Hypothesis

"The idea that the universe was actually created by a supernatural intelligence is a dramatic, important idea." Read More ›
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No. 7 Story of 2023: Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by John West.

New Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, by NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Physics

Multiple physical laws and constants must be finely tuned for the universe to be inhabited by advanced forms of life. Read More ›
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What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Read More ›
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Physics Nobel Prize Invites Snark from the Anti-ID Peanut Gallery

Insofar as Peebles’s work helps to strengthen the evidence for a cosmic beginning, it is actually part of the argument for intelligent design. Read More ›
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New Science Uprising Episode Counters the “I Suck” Principle

Materialists share a tendency to want to degrade human beings and our place in the cosmos. Read More ›
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In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History

Scientism’s grand progress narrative holds that as we learn more and more about the world, purely natural or material explanations inevitably will arise and grow stronger. Read More ›
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Kanye Imagine? “Scientists Don’t Have to Be Darwinists”

Thanks to Kanye West and Chance the Rapper, an idea has sprung on the culture like a thunderclap. Read More ›

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