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The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in an Intelligently Designed World

As Hedin puts it, “The universe reveals who we are by allowing us to make free choices.” In other words, the ball is in our court. Read More ›
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From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›
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Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will

How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust? Read More ›
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To Ask “Where Is God in This Pandemic?” Is to Acknowledge that God Exists

The problem of theodicy is real, of course. We don’t always know or understand God’s ways. Read More ›
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Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”

No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers. Read More ›

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