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Dumbbell Nebula
Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Marek.69 talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Pope Benedict XVI, Science Had a Friend and Neo-Darwinism a Foe

That Benedict meant to implicate neo-Darwinism in its flight from evidence is not mere wishful thinking on the part of the design community. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Apollo 17/NASA.

A Miraculous Existence

Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Read More ›
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Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.Design.

Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›
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Image: Erasmus Darwin, by Joseph Wright of Derby, via Wikimedia Commons.

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›
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Photo: Vatican, by Luc Mercelis, via Flickr (cropped).

Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Read More ›
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An ancient incantation bowl inscribed with Mandaic, the Mandaean language, by Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution. Read More ›
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Watch: Science Reveals the “Miracle of Man”

Biologist Michael Denton shows how science has reversed the depressive trend of the past five centuries. Read More ›
Charles Kingsley
Photo: Charles Kingsley, by Charles Watkins via Wikimedia Commons.

The Rise of Theistic Darwinism

This form of objection left the door ajar to the kind of “hybrid” interpretation favored by some in both Britain and America in the later Victorian period. Read More ›

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