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Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›
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Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record

We’ve gone back and forth with Dr. Barr many times in the past. Mainstream paleoanthropologists acknowledge that the origin of humans is sudden and abrupt. Read More ›
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Ann Gauger on EWTN, and Intelligent Design’s Universality

I find this openness and lack of dogmatism uplifting, and an indicator that ID is trying to follow the evidence. Read More ›
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The Return of Natural Theology

Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›
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Teaching Intelligent Design to Revitalize Catholic Education

Many Christian schools teach the same curriculum that secular schools do with some added religious flavoring. Read More ›
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Watch: Jay Richards on the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

Eric Sammons is a personable interlocutor who realizes, by the end of the interview, that he was an intelligent design proponent all along without realizing it. Read More ›
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A Living and Symphonic Order — Appreciating Anthony Esolen

I knew I wanted to choose someone who wrote beautifully. He, however, was someone I didn't know, and I could not predict his views on intelligent design. Read More ›
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God’s Grandeur: Some Resources to Explore

How many people are willing to give up morality, rationality, free will, truth, beauty, and goodness as valuable concepts based on reality? Read More ›
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God’s Grandeur: Ann Gauger on Beauty, Intelligibility, and Human Uniqueness

Dr. Gauger holds that Darwinism has no adequate explanation for natural beauty or the ability of human beings to appreciate beauty for its own sake. Read More ›
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God’s Grandeur: Ann Gauger on the Scientific Case for Intelligent Design

A biologist explains why it is indeed possible that the entire human race came from two original parents. Read More ›

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