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Photo: John Lennox in Against the Tide.

Stephen Meyer, John Lennox: Against the Tide Sweeps Away Atheist “Power Play”

Does the universe bear a “stamp” indicating the guidance of a designing intelligence? Lennox’s answer is yes. He has spent a lifetime arguing as much. Read More ›
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Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›
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Book Excerpt: The Big Bang and the Fine-Tuned Universe

What can we infer about the cause of the universe, about what brought it into being? Read More ›
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Between Sapientia and Scientia — Michael Aeschliman’s Profound Interpretation

Science, the dominant way of knowing of our age, now finds itself caught between a rock and (very) hard place. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Donna Rodgers from Pixabay.

The Radio at the Edge of the Universe

If the universe were a radio and the desired setting allows for life, it would have dozens of dials for setting the values of the universal constants. Read More ›
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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Photo: Holmdel Horn Antenna, where Penzias and Wilson made their discovery, by Fabioj [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance. Read More ›
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Hubble’s Law
Photos: Edwin Hubble (above) in 1931, by Johan Hagemeyer (1884-1962) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Proper Credit — Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?

Many leading scientists of the day realized the implication of the cosmic expansion — there was a beginning!  Read More ›
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Happy New Year! #1 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers

Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that. Read More ›

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