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Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design

Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›
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Photo: Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, by Historic American Buildings Survey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›
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Photo: Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth, via Wikimedia Commons.

Woke Science: Prestigious Biology Journal Claims “Ocean” Is a “Living Entity” with Rights

The “Ocean rights” approach would make the creatures of the sea co-equal with humans. Read More ›
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Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by J. Nathan Matias, via Flickr (cropped).

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Read More ›
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Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›
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“In Fauci We Trust”? C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientific Authoritarianism

Who would have predicted all that Americans have experienced in the past five months? Read More ›
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Photo: Portland riot, by Tedder / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›
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Here’s How We Get Around the Wikipedia Roadblock

Newcomers to intelligent design often ask us about a certain influential online encyclopedia. We have to laugh. Read More ›
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Photo: David Gelernter, by Doc Searls (Flickr: 2010_08_05_techonomy_154) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Great Minds: Medved and Gelernter on Human Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism

The human mind is exceptional in the universe as the United States is exceptional on the face of the Earth. Read More ›

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