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Michael Egnor: Judeo-Christian Culture and the Rise of Modern Science

Dr. Egnor addresses the claim that the rise of atheism has somehow been a boon to science. Not so, Egnor says. Read More ›
Mother Earth
Image: Mother Earth, via Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›
Carina-Nebula
Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Stephen Meyer: How Misunderstood Science Drives Religious Disbelief

What a shame that the scientific mainstream has done such a poor job of communicating its own discoveries to the public. Read More ›
Mother Earth
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Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›
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Marks, Dembski: AI Hype and the “Illusion of Possibility”

The materialist agenda is served by AI hype, while the human mission is damaged. And that is what is at stake. Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
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Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution. Read More ›
Bust of Rudolf Bultmann
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Darwin, Lyell, and Demythologization

The term demythologization is today most frequently associated with the mid 20th-century German theologian Rudolf Bultmann. Read More ›
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Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Fruitful Marriage of Biology and Engineering

If biology isn’t designed, which is another way of saying "engineered," wouldn’t this state of affairs be pretty counterintuitive? Read More ›
Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
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Stephen Meyer: God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos

Stephen Meyer and radio host Michael Medved discuss the series of hit videos for PragerU featuring Meyer. Read More ›

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