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Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary

The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something. Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution

"Many life forms with essentially new body types appeared quickly and without precursors in the Burgess Shale in Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia." Read More ›
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The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›
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Evolution Is Not Like Physics

A new theory of evolution extends Darwinian processes, making them into physical laws based on “learning theory.” Read More ›

Philosophers Want Back into Science

One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›
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How Embryonic Development Bears on Evolution

In order for evolution to have occurred as the orthodox theory describes, the intricate embryonic development stages of species must have evolved. Read More ›
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Two Evolutionists Inadvertently Demolish Evolution

Yesterday we saw how, in a new paper, Warren Allmon and Robert Ross reformulate the argument for evolution from homologous structures. Read More ›
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Challenge to a Critic of the Design Intuition: How Do You Explain Your Own Use of It?

Previously, I questioned a theistic evolutionist's claim that we can’t rule out chance as an explanation for something unless the probability of chance working can be calculated accurately. Read More ›
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Seeking an Official Definition of “Randomness”: A Reply to Jay Richards

How do we tell exactly what the scientific theory of evolution is? There is no axiomatized presentation emblazoned on the walls of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Read More ›
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What’s in a Word? “Randomness” in Darwinism and the Scientific Theory of Evolution

This is the third in a series of reviews of Alvin Plantinga's important new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies. Read More ›

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