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Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
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New PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20

Watched by a million people this week, Meyer in these 5 minutes does a superbly lucid job of explaining why scientists who doubt the standard evolutionary story are “appropriately skeptical.” Read More ›
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Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics

I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description. Read More ›
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Photo: Jerry Coyne on The Dave Rubin Show, via YouTube (screen shot).

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›
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 “Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge

Because the challenge is perennial, and because we’re not all philosophers, it’s good to come back to it from time to time. Read More ›
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Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”

Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart on Michael Ruse’s “Compromise” with Christianity

Michael Ruse aims at a surprising conclusion in his new book. Weikart isn’t buying it. Read More ›
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Melanie Phillips, Pro-Sanity Journalist, on David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy 

Phillips draws a helpful parallel between intolerant leftism, in command in our culture now, and the evolutionism that similarly will tolerate no challenges. Read More ›
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George Weigel, Biographer of John Paul II, Takes Note of David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

For a major intellectual like this to publicly reject evolutionary theory naturally catches the attention of other major intellectuals. Read More ›

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