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No. 2 Story for 2025: My Conversation with Denis Noble About Intelligent Design

In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›
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No. 5 Story for 2025: Richard Dawkins Says Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Hypothesis

"I think that the hypothesis of theism is the most exciting scientific hypothesis you could possibly hold." Read More ›
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No. 6 Story for 2025: When Charlie Kirk Talked About Intelligent Design

People will be talking about Charlie Kirk’s legacy for a long time. You could start anywhere. Read More ›
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Michael Behe: Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse

Dr. Behe recently presented some of his ID arguments to faculty, students, and post-docs at Cornell University. Read More ›
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So, Chimps Are Rational Now, Too? War on Human Exceptionalism Goes On

The trouble many researchers go to in order to try to efface the stark reality of human exceptionalism is astonishing. Read More ›
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With Neanderthals and Denisovans, We Are All the Same Kind of Being

Evolutionary anthropologists need to stop putting people groups into “less evolved” categories. It’s a form of historical racism.  Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›
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When Charlie Kirk Talked About Intelligent Design

People will be talking about Charlie Kirk’s legacy for a long time. You could start anywhere. Read More ›
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Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›

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