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Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›
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New “Three Views” Book Explores the Relationship of Faith and Science

Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen inaccurate descriptions of intelligent design from Professor McGrath. Read More ›
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Webinar with John West: “Darwin’s Three Big Ideas That Impacted Humanity”

Darwinian theory is a more than just an idea about origins. The reasons it arouses the passion it does go beyond science. Read More ›
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As Church Membership Slumps Ominously, Time for a Return of the God Hypothesis

"Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend." Read More ›
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#10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb

It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›
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“Blind Evolution… Explained Everything”

COVID-19 isn’t our only pandemic. There is also a pandemic of loneliness and despair. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Shedding Light on Darwin’s Shadow

Nature’s prophet and Darwin's challenger, Wallace's effort was to restore nature to the “space-spirit hierarchy” it once knew. Read More ›
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
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Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”

“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.” Read More ›
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Much Nothing about Ado: The Uselessness of Dehumanized Darwinism

To Darwinians, people are just another species of animal. But when they invent models to try to explain how human animals evolve their behaviors, chaos ensues. Read More ›
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Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory

As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory. Read More ›

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