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High School Science with an Intelligent Design Perspective? Yes, Please!

Kristin Marais and Summer Edwards explain why they’re so passionate about teaching their subject and how the courses are designed with maximum flexibility. Read More ›
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Physical Beauty, Mathematical Beauty, Scientific Beauty

Fifteen centuries ago, when he was falsely accused of treason, exiled from his home, and awaiting his execution, Boethius consoled himself with those words. Read More ›
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Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think? Read More ›
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Cellular Design: More than Information, It Is the Manifestation of an Idea

I’ll attempt to describe an additional aspect of living organisms that highlights their “wholeness” and negates the possibility of reducing life to information. Read More ›
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Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›
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I Want to Write a Book About Intelligent Design. What Should I Do?

The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Atheism: Historical Support and a Question of Terminology

Calling Gibberson, Miller, McGrath, and others theistic evolutionists is inaccurate because it fails to distinguish them from genuinely theistic evolutionists. Read More ›
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Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›
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What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›
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Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Read More ›

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