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Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›
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Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Read More ›
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Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers: More on Sean Carroll

Describing luxury mechanical watches as “marvels of engineering and design” is not a religiously motivated claim. Read More ›
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Science Before the Rise of Modern Science

An interview with Winston Ewert about his fascinating new book on the interaction between science and faith before Copernicus. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Orphan Foe: A Gene Army Comes for Darwinism

Evolutionary theory led evolutionists to expect these genes to be rare. As it turns out, they aren’t. Read More ›
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Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›
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Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too. Read More ›
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With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›
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To Understand the Meaning of a Solar Eclipse

The rare places where observers can exist are also the best places for observing. The universe seems to be designed not just for life but also for discovery. Read More ›
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Joe Lieberman, the Sabbath, and Intelligent Design

In simplest terms, the Biblical institution of a Sabbath is intended as a weekly reminder of intelligent design. Read More ›

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