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Say Goodbye to This Origin-of-Life “Get Out of Jail Free Card”

It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years. Read More ›
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Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›
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Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›
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Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›
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The Physics of Alien Life Would Necessitate Intelligent Design

Anyone imagining alien biology, anywhere across the universe, even if it takes unexpected forms, would have to include this expectation. Read More ›
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The Matters that Matter: What I Learned from My Brother’s Death

I’ve built my professional career on twin pillars. The first is cognitive simulation, that is, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Read More ›
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Register Now: HS Biology and Chemistry with Intelligent Design Integration

The integration is key; the courses don’t just tack on ID concepts but place them directly where they fit with the underlying scientific understanding. Read More ›
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›
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Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›
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Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›

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