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Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›
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Nautilus at S.E.A. Aquarium, Singapore
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Here Is What We Mean by Intelligent Design (And What We Don’t)

Some ID supporters agree with universal common descent, but many ID supporters argue against the idea that all life shares a common ancestor. Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Read More ›
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Generic Intelligent Design, the Multiverse, or One God?

Stephen Meyer examines the multiverse theory and why it fails to explain away the insistent evidence of a cosmic designer. Read More ›
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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 ›
Parthenon
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 ›
Deep Space Station 56
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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