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Photo: William Whewell, Trinity College, Cambridge, by Vysotsky (Wikimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Vital European Hub for Theistic Views on Science

Dr. Alistair McKitterick explains how intelligent design and natural theology provide a robust framework that challenges modern scientific materialism. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, by Nathan Jacobson.

Flying Solo Before Joining Steve Meyer and Paul Nelson

I had a deep sense of calling that I needed to work on bringing design back into science. But I had no colleagues to talk with about this.  Read More ›
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Image: Saint Paulinus, by John K Thorne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Darwinian Revolution: A Longer Historical Perspective

It is well enough known that our remote ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons, were originally polytheists who had voyaged over the English Channel. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of A. R. Wallace, Natural History Museum, by Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

Unlike Darwin, Wallace grew up among the middle class and had to work for a living. This dictated the contours of his life and research. Read More ›
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E.T., Phoned In: The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg

Steve Deace has called the film a direct assault on Christianity. This wasn’t exactly my impression. I didn’t feel assaulted so much as vaguely condescended to. Read More ›
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Photo: A murmuration of starlings, by Airwolfhound, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Flocking of Crowds: The Secular University and Unstable Mass Conformism

A bird sees another bird next to him fluttering, and he wants to flutter that way, too. Read More ›
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Photo: James Orr and Stephen Meyer, via First Light/YouTube (screenshot).

Stephen Meyer in Cambridge: Natural Theology or Intelligent Design?

Adds James Orr, “You might call it non-natural theology in that your argument around mathematics and information is that it's not naturalistically explicable. Read More ›
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Single strand ribonucleic acid, RNA research and therapy
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Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Axe and Luskin on the Design Intuition and Its Critics

The numbers don’t lie. So why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Axe’s research? Read More ›
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Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

No. 4 Story for 2025: Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›

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