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Photo credit: NASA/Chris Williams.

God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Read More ›
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Photo: Bible, Morgan Library, New York, by David Klinghoffer.

Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›
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Image: Watercolor, by TecumsehFitch, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Artem Beliaikin from Moscow, Russia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Prominent Physicist Wishes Away the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Recently Carlo Rovelli fell into an all-too-common trap for creative thinkers. He offered an opinion on a subject outside his discipline. Read More ›
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Image: Friedrich Nietzsche, by Edvard Munch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sean Carroll Revives Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

The point arrives when a philosophy is so unreasonable, so utterly broken, that one can only give it a good strong kick. Argument fails; one must act. Read More ›
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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Read More ›
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Photo: Asian elephant, by Yathin S Krishnappa, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›
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Photo: UFO Museum, Roswell, NM, by Kimble Young, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

We Are Not Alone? No, We Never Were

C. S. Lewis was always game for a chat about God and aliens, as recalled by his protégé Sheldon Vanauken. Read More ›
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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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