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Hamas
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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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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute/J. Lee; Processing: NASA/Catholic University of America/Gladys Kober.

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 ›
Tongan island
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Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›
Middle East from space
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Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›
Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn
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40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›
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Atheists Who Scold Us on Morality Unwittingly Acknowledge God’s Existence

Actually, Christians don’t ask, “Where do your morals come from?” in order to call atheists evil. Read More ›
Hitler's religion
Hitler's religion
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Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will

How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust? Read More ›
Notre Dame
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Medved, Berlinski Take on Steven Pinker and Whig History

Anyone imagining that human depravity and the God hypothesis are things of the past are themselves living in the past. Read More ›
March for Science
Photo: Bill Nye and the March for Science, by Paul and Cathy / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Richard Weikart: The Dark Side of Science

March for science, you say? Follow the science? Listen to the scientists? Perhaps first ask "What science?" and "What scientists?" Read More ›

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