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Dallas Conference: How Consciousness Refutes Materialism and Supports Theism

I am excited to present to you at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith on February 17. I'll be talking about the "Uniqueness of the Human Mind." Read More ›
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Photo: Northern lights, by Lenny K Photography from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm

A “hidden realm” behind the common-sense realm of “local realism” — this is the actual nature of the reality in which we live. Read More ›
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Live and In-Person in Dallas, February 17: Learn About Our Privileged Planet

Speakers will include philosopher Jay W. Richards, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer.  Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Childhood in the Ice Age — What Was It Like?

Having reached a point now known as the “Sala dei Misteri,” they left signatures of their time there. Read More ›
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Understanding the Limits of Scientism

The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed.  Read More ›
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The Human Mind Has No History

There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›
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Science, Scripture, and the Image of God

"The proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories." Read More ›
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Thinking God’s Thoughts: Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility

Melissa Cain Travis traces the intellectual pedigree of Johannes Kepler’s ideas all the way back to the ancients. Read More ›
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A Profound Challenge to Materialism, Longing Is Our “Inconsolable Secret” 

Longings that are unsatisfied by the provisions of Earth are not just a weary response to our often stress-laden modern lifestyles. Read More ›

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