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Photo: "Mother and Child" (1912), by Henry Essenhigh Corke (1883-1919), via Wikimedia Commons.

What Is a Person, and How Do We Know?

The characteristics invoked in the abortion debate — consciousness, rationality, and intrinsic human dignity — function as recalcitrant facts for naturalism. Read More ›
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A Vital European Hub for Theistic Views on Science

Dr. Alistair McKitterick explains how intelligent design and natural theology provide a robust framework that challenges modern scientific materialism. Read More ›
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Cultivating Creativity in the Chatbot Age

if we reach for the Google search or the AI chatbot too quickly, we cede our superpower to a machine. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: The Blur at the Edges, Versus the Blur Everywhere

Evidence for intelligent design in nature may be clear to you, while other matters relating to faith remain far more perplexing. Read More ›
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Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Read More ›
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My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Read More ›
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Meyer: Twenty Years Later, Debate with New Atheists Is Over

In the Philippine jungles after World War II, a few lonely Japanese soldiers carried on fighting for decades, not realizing the war was over. Read More ›
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The Darwinian Revolution: A Longer Historical Perspective

It is well enough known that our remote ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons, were originally polytheists who had voyaged over the English Channel. Read More ›
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Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Read More ›
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C. W. Howell in Context: A Brief History of Histories

One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Read More ›

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