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Aggressive Atheism’s “Somewhat Different Delusion” Stalls Out Very Publicly

Imagine being such a poor evangelist for atheism that people credit you with helping them become Christians. Read More ›
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Meyer: Twenty Years Later, Debate with New Atheists Is Over

In the Philippine jungles after World War II, a few lonely Japanese soldiers carried on fighting for decades, not realizing the war was over. Read More ›
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Restoring Our Vision: Michael Behe and Darwin’s Black Box

What has always stirred me with a deep set of conflicting emotions is his reference to the “elephant in the room.”  Read More ›
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Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›
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Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is.  Read More ›
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Jonathan Witt: Darwinism and Its “Pernicious Cultural Implications”

What are we to make of rationality and creativity, of our awareness of the moral order? In the Judeo-Christian tradition, these markers are elevated. Read More ›
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Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›
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On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Went Out the Window

All of this decay when atheists were considered to be the primary spokespeople for science. And they have yielded the floor to irrational forces. Read More ›
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French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator. Read More ›
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Reassessing Daniel Dennett on Consciousness as an Illusion

It is a waste of time to pretend that consciousness is simply an “amazing collection of almost mundane tricks in the brain.” Read More ›

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