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Galileo Galilei

Galileo
Image: Galileo Galilei in 1636, by Justus Sustermans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design’s “Galileo Figure”

Tom Woodward calls Jonathan Wells a “Galileo figure” in intelligent design’s connection with epigenetics. Read More ›
Newton by Blake
Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jossuha Théophile on Unsplash.

Is Natural Law Irreducible?

Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin in 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron, via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?

An example of a now-discarded theory is that of spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process of living organisms developing from nonliving matter. Read More ›
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embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
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Photo: Congress investigates UAPs, by U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”

Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb. Read More ›
Mob Quad, Merton College
Photo: Mob Quad, Merton College, one of Oxford University's oldest structures, by DWR, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity 

The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›
Baruch Spinoza
Photo: Statue of Baruch Spinoza, The Hague, Netherlands, by Roel Wijnants, via Flickr (cropped).

Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth

In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science? Read More ›
Orion Nebula
Photo: Orion Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto.

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›
Bruno
Photo: Monument to Giordano Bruno, Rome, by Francesca Soria [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Keas Debunks Science-Faith Warfare Myth

“Scientists do love a good story,” says Keas. “Turns out there are plenty of stories we shouldn’t believe.” Read More ›

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