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Meyer-Rogan
Photo: Courtesy of The Joe Rogan Experience.

A Year Ago Today, Steve Meyer Met Joe Rogan

“Things seem much different than they did a year ago,” said our colleague Emily Sandico in an office conversation the other day. Read More ›
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Photo: A scene from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, via YouTube (screenshot).

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›
screen
Photo credit: Adrien Olichon on Unsplash.

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: Stephen Meyer on Why the “Front-Loaded” Design Explanation Fails, and More

Do note that some presentations will be livestreamed but others — including Dr. Meyer on “Intelligent Design as a Scientific Theory” — will be in-person only! Read More ›
Hitler Youth
Photo: Hitler Youth, via Bundesarchiv, Bild 147-0510 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nazis and Their Transhumanist Delusion

A new series on Netflix shows what can happen when the delusions of transhumanism join forces with an appalling ideology. Read More ›
mushrooms
Photo credit: Hans Veth, via Unsplash.

Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism 

Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Read More ›
cosmos
Photo credit: Jordan Condon, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and Spencer Klavan on the Book of Nature: Is There an Author?

Intelligent design was the default scientific understanding of nature and the cosmos — until the hostile takeover by Darwinian materialism. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, by Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by Hans Wild/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images).

Thus Saith the Science: Recalling the Wisdom of C. S. Lewis on His 125th Birthday

Here, I conclude a conversation with Dr. John West about Lewis’s prophetic warnings to us about science and scientism. Read More ›
Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis-Mr._N
Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor.  Read More ›

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