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Photo source: Fr. Michael Chaberek.

Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›
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Photo: Jonathan and Lucy Wells, by Marcos Eberlin.

Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo: Martin Luther King Jr., via Wikimedia Commons.

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Read More ›
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Image: Nicholas Copernicus, via Toruń Regional Museum / Public domain.

Poland’s Intelligent Design Revolution

While Isaac Newton is universally regarded as the greatest physicist of all time, it is to the Pole Copernicus that we credit the rise of modern science. Read More ›
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
Photo: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, 1988 Moscow Summit, by Reagan White House Photographs, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989Collection: White House Photographic Collection, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt — and Ours — to Intelligent Design

President Reagan wrung a startling spiritual concession from his Communist counterpart — with an argument for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo source: Discovery Institute.

From Political Scientist John West: Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism

Our colleague John West has a handsome new website with many useful features, but I was particularly intrigued by the section headed, “Something Personal.” Read More ›
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Photo: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No. 10 Story of 2023: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

You would have to be willfully blind, or just stay far away from our major city centers, to miss some of the more obvious signs of the spiritual crisis. Read More ›
Lennox Sorbo
Lennox Sorbo
Photo: Kevin Sorbo and John Lennox, a scene from Against the Tide.

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Read More ›
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Photo: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›
Dover Beach
Photo: Dover Beach, by Jennifer Boyer via Flickr (cropped).

From “Dover Beach” to Wokeness and Beyond

Can we embrace the Christian ethical framework without belief in God, miracles, and the afterlife? Read More ›

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