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How a Self-Confessed “Miniature Richard Dawkins” Found His Way to Intelligent Design

Whether learning from a professor or chatting with a fellow student over coffee, Martin never ran into anyone to challenge his naturalistic worldview. Read More ›
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Happiness Comes When Humans Fulfill Our Designed Purpose

Our mind, our brain, our physical as well as our metaphysical existence are all designed to deliver satisfaction only after our suffering toward a goal. Read More ›
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Cultivating Creativity in the Chatbot Age

if we reach for the Google search or the AI chatbot too quickly, we cede our superpower to a machine. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: The Blur at the Edges, Versus the Blur Everywhere

Evidence for intelligent design in nature may be clear to you, while other matters relating to faith remain far more perplexing. Read More ›
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Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Read More ›
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Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Read More ›
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Christopher Nolan’s Disenchanted Odyssey

In Nolan's supposal, the mad scientist takes on the mystique of a wizard. Perhaps this is fitting, given that he sees science and wizardry as the same thing. Read More ›
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Mind Behind the Universe? A Stereotype About Scientists May Be Crumbling

Joel Kotkin points to a recent conference that brought together top engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to discuss the “new synergy.” Read More ›
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Science, Faith, and Education: Not the Unlikely Trio You Once Thought

Note this: “religiously engaged people have become more likely to be well-educated, while atheists are less so.” Read More ›
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Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›

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