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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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Garbage Goodbye: In Blow to Junk RNA, “Majority” of Transcription Not “Background Noise”

A 2026 paper reports on an AI trained on genomic data, including data from a 2024 paper, enabling it to predict when transcription would be initiated. Read More ›
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I Want to Write a Book About Intelligent Design. What Should I Do?

The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Read More ›
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Designer Science Repeats Common Misunderstandings of Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Read More ›
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Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›
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New Long Story Short Video Explores How Non-Experts Can Assess Scientific Questions

A new Long Story Short video tries to answer this question: How can a non-expert assess who is right in a complex scientific debate — specifically on the question “How did life begin?” Read More ›
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Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Read More ›
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Theistic Evolution Book Cites Debunked Icons

Professor Kuebler uses a classical argument for common descent, citing the universality of the genetic code. Read More ›
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Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders

Fear of validating opposition to materialism diminishes the scholarship of some scientific publications. Their authors need to get a grip. Read More ›
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Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding

Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy. Read More ›

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