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Endowed with Spontaneity: Celebrating Human Freedom

That’s 1930s-German-philosopher-speak for the power and freedom human beings have to know themselves, be known to others, and be active agents in the world. Read More ›
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Hope from Science and New Polling on America’s Creed

John West discussed the meaning of equality, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, when it’s obvious that individual humans are not all equally gifted. Read More ›
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Lennox, Meyer, Tour, Robinson: The Science of Monotheism

The indefinite article is emphatically in the singular. In all those statements, there was only one beginning. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: A Physician Reads the Designer’s Signature

The audience will see that everything related to our presence on this planet could not have happened by accident. It’s quite a story. Read More ›
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Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›
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Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Read More ›
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The Levin Teleology Revolution Is Here

He has assembled a global community of like-minded investigators who openly advocate teleological arguments harking back to Aristotle and Plato. 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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Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning

With the multiverse hypothesis, a key supposition is that the physical parameters within alternative universes somehow vary over an undefined range. Read More ›
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No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Read More ›

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