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Postcard from Venice: First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design

Recently I had the great privilege and honor to attend a remarkable event in the beautiful and historic city of Venice, Italy. Read More ›
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Photo: World Health Organization, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dehumanizing Skeptics of the “International Order”

The people’s loss of “belief” was the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve. Read More ›
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, by Nathan Jacobson.

Summer Seminars Create the Next Generation of Intelligent Design

Jacob Butschek, one of our 2023 international seminar students, shared his story with me. “Theism gets hammered by society and universities,” he says. Read More ›
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Photo: Leafcutter ants, by Pjt56, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›
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Were Neanderthals Religious?

We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›
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In Bats and Other Animals, Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

There has been little data previously to confirm that mammals navigate long distances using the earth’s geomagnetic field. Read More ›
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Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide. Read More ›

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