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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, by London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company (active 1855-1922) / Public domain.

Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace

Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by John West.

New Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan, by NASA/Cosmos Studies.

Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›
Photo: Sir Charles Lyell, via Wikimedia Commons.

Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design: Theistic Implications?

Although the case for intelligent design depends upon scientific evidence and methods of reasoning, it may well have larger theistic implications. Read More ›
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Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design

The multiverse concept posits the existence of many other universes, each with different sets of physical parameters. Read More ›
Hawking zero gravity
Hawking zero gravity
Stephen Hawking in 0-gravity. Photo credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network, via Wikimedia Commons.

Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›
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young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwin’s Many Doubts

Did the admirably candid Charles Darwin himself really believe all that he wrote about evolution? Read More ›
Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace, by George Beccaloni / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›
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Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design as an Invitation

Without the possibility of a design behind the universe, to ask “why” would truly be absurd. Read More ›

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