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Photo: Sunrise, as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

Dembski: What Is Science? What Is Faith?

Scientific discoveries, unshackled from atheism, point strongly to design as the best explanation for life and the universe, a conclusion friendly to theism. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Guy.Baroz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Read More ›
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Photo: Parthenon, by George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Read More ›
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Photo: Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Read More ›
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Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order. Read More ›
Top 6 Evidence for Intelligent Design
Image: "Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt.

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Stephen Meyer Gets a Suitably Impressive New Website

By turning to physics and cosmology — the study of the universe and its origins — Meyer brings evidence not just for a designer but for a personal God. Read More ›
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Photo: Prehistoric arrowheads, by Gary Todd / CC0.

The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

Lydia McGrew gives the analogy that there is always a possibility that prehistoric civilizations did not have the ability or desire to make arrowheads. Read More ›
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Philosophical-ish Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Paul Draper

Recently I was asked by several people whether I had ever responded to an old review of my book Darwin’s Black Box. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer’s Next Frontier: The Return of the God Hypothesis

Meyer is well known as a leading proponent of ID, the scientific alternative to theories of unguided evolution. He talks here about his exciting and important next book. Read More ›

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