Tag: Founders

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Today on Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Political Science
Tagged
, appearance, automobiles, Ben Carson, brains, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Declaration of Independence, dura, endowed by our creator, ethnicity, eye color, Founders, genetics, human skull, humans, John West, neurosurgeons, neurosurgery, operating room, race, skin color}

Ben Carson, John West: Human Equality in a Neurosurgeon’s View

_{David Klinghoffer
June 1, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Political Science

3}

You could draw a comparison to looking under the hood of your car, versus looking under the hood of mine. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 13, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Alexander H. Stephens, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Confederacy, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, Founders, human equality, intelligent design, John West, liturgy, natural theology, Politics, Power Line, scientific racism, slavery, Southerners, Steve Hayward, United States, window dressing}

Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Political Science

2}

Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, belief, China, creator, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, equality, Founders, Founding, ink, John West, Mao Zedong, materialists, National Archives, nations, natural science, nature, rights, sentiment, Soviet Union, sunlight, tombs, United States, V.I. Lenin}

John West: The Science of the American Founding Has Been Vindicated

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

2}

On display at the National Archives, the Declaration’s ink has faded from past exposure to sunlight. But its truths haven’t faded. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 27, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, americans, Bible, creator, creed, death, Declaration of Independence, documentary, endowed by our creator, equality, Founders, government, human beings, human identity, Iran, John Adams, John West, life, physical existence, reality, rights, The Story of Everything, Tim Kaine, tyrants, universe, Virginia}

John West: Our National Creed Rests on Propositions About Reality

_{David Klinghoffer
April 27, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

4}

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, what “story” we hold to be true matters as much as it has always done. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 10, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, americans, conscience, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, equality, Founders, ID the Future, intelligent designer, John West, liberty, limited government, moral design, natural philosophy, philosophy, revelation, rights, scientific consensus, scientific discoveries, Scripture, theology, virtue}

The Science Behind the Declaration of Independence

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 10, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The scientific consensus of the Founders’ era confirmed the truths of the Declaration. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, americans, Bible, creator, creed, Declaration of Independence, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, Founders, generations, happiness, human beings, intelligent design, iterations, John West, liberty, life, natural theology, rights, slavery, social evolution, United States, vibe}

In the Year of the Declaration’s 250th, Condemning Slavery in the Name of a “Vibe”?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

3}

How urgent this book’s message is was brought home to me over the weekend in a conversation with a bright young man. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Groothuis

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, biographers, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, caste system, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Elon Musk, endowed by our creator, evolution, First Amendment, Founders, Founding, French Revolution, guillotine, happiness, Hinduism, humans, image of God, infidels, Islam, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, sanctity of life, Second Treatise on Government, social contract theory, St. Augustine, Steve Jobs, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, The Social Contract, theism, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Unitarians, universal human rights, utopianism, Walter Isaacson, worldview}

In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

_{Douglas Groothuis
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, americans, apes, apotheosis, Carl Becker, Charles Darwin, Charles Merriam, Columbia University, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, education, endowed by our creator, environment, evolutionary racism, Founders, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, government, gravitation, Great Society, humanity, income, John Burgess, limited government, medical care, natural law, nature, Nature and Nature’s God, New Deal, New Jersey, New York City, Princeton University, progressives, Teutonic race, U.S. Constitution, United States, University of Chicago, Woodrow Wilson}

The Denial of Limited Government in the Name of Science

_{John G. West
March 23, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

7}

Charles Darwin was honored for showing that the truths preached by the political philosophers had been substantiated by biological science. Read More ›

Statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury UK

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Kinsey, Christopher Ryan, conscience, cultural anarchy, Darwinian biology, Darwinism, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, ethics, family life, Founders, Friedrich Nietzsche, human sexuality, libertinism, liberty, Moral Law, morality, natural selection, New York Times, reason, relativism, revelation, Robert Wright, Sex at Dawn, sexual morality, United States, world view}

Darwinism’s Attack on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God

_{John G. West
March 16, 2026

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Needless to say, this new view of morality is toxic to the Founders’ understanding of liberty. Read More ›