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Network Technology: Biology Does It Better

Our modern world surrounds us with hi-tech networks, but biology has had them since the beginning of life. Read More ›
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A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›
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Old fashioned television set with green screen displaying static noise in a vintage living room with outdated furniture.
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Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›
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The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›
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Photo: The perfect solar eclipse of 1919, by ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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To Save Civilization, Will “Cultural Christianity” Suffice?

Elon Musk told Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian in an interview broadcast on X last July. Read More ›
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Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated.  Read More ›
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New Book: Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

If you want to understand why many Christian colleges are now producing graduates with views indistinguishable from secular materialists, read my book. Read More ›
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Photo: A gold nugget from Australia, by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Earth’s Gold-Mining Machine

Earth operates an extraordinary natural factory that concentrates gold from barely detectable amounts into rich deposits that humans can mine. How? Read More ›
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Photo: Copper alloy arrowheads from the Bronze Age, Leicestershire, England, by The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Discovery of Metals — A Double-Edged Sword

Why should the melting points of common metals be attainable in furnaces heated by burning carbon-based organic matter? Read More ›

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