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Event Report: Design and the Designer

There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›
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Against the Tide: The Darkening Intellectual Scene

"Once you lose the kind of stabilizing influence of rational thought and respect," says John Lennox, "then you can end up with violence, as we have seen." Read More ›
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Return of the God Hypothesis

From Evidence of Cosmology and Physics, Meyer’s New Book Points to a Personal God

Good news! We now have a firm publication date of March 30, 2021. Read More ›
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Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism

From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›
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Original, Incisive, Brilliant: Victor Davis Hanson on Berlinski’s Human Nature

“A brilliant indictment of scientific groupthink by an unapologetic intellectual dissident.” Read More ›
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Before Gelernter, Wolfe, Shapiro, Prager, Nagel, Et Al., There Was Iconoclast Tom Bethell

Watch this short feature on Bethell, “Iconoclast: One Journalist’s Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates.” Read More ›
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George Weigel, Biographer of John Paul II, Takes Note of David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

For a major intellectual like this to publicly reject evolutionary theory naturally catches the attention of other major intellectuals. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis
Photo: Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.

Now on YouTube — Stephen Meyer, Eric Metaxas on the Return of the God Hypothesis

It’s a great, great privilege to work with brilliant scientists who do such an amazing job of explaining the science that lies behind the deepest questions men and women can ask themselves. Read More ›
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Academic Freedom — Sweeping Up the Shards

Here is an article, “The New Evolution Deniers,” by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright at Penn State. Read More ›

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