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Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil

The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Read More ›
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The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Problem of Pain

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›
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Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Read More ›
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To Address the Problem of Evil, Intelligent Design Is Better Situated than Darwinism

The questions I see coming into the Center for Science and Culture from our readers, friends, and supporters are thought-provoking. Read More ›
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No. 10 Story of 2023: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

You would have to be willfully blind, or just stay far away from our major city centers, to miss some of the more obvious signs of the spiritual crisis. 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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From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›

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