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Darwin and the Problem of Pain

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›
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When an Atheist Professor’s Worldview Imploded

For 25 years, John D. Wise considered Darwinian evolution the most plausible explanation for life’s origin and development. Read More ›
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Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›
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Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›
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Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Read More ›
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Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm. Read More ›
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Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›

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