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Tribalism in the Evolution Debate

What is all this about “lying”? Cornelius Hunter provides some context at the end of his video that I thought was insightful. Read More ›
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Photo: Supernova 1987A, by NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and M. Mutchler and R. Avila (STScI).

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Read More ›
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Is the Cosmos One Big Happy Accident?

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards discusses distortions and outright falsehoods presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›
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Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity 

The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Baruch Spinoza, The Hague, Netherlands, by Roel Wijnants, via Flickr (cropped).

Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth

In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science? Read More ›
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Darwin and the “New Atheists” 

There is surely some historical irony in the attempt to enlist Charles Darwin posthumously in defense of the atheist cause. Read More ›
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Photo: A replica of Galileo's telescope, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Keas: Faith, Science, and the Phases of Venus

Dr. Keas explains, among things, the role that Venus with its phases, like those of our Moon, played in advancing astronomy into the modern age. Read More ›
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Logan Paul Gage: “Our Galileo Complex”

How did science, of all things, come to be a vehicle for virtue signaling, a virtual religion, with insiders and outsiders, the damned and the saved? Read More ›
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Portrait of Galileo Galilei and his telescope
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Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus. Read More ›
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Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›

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