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Bruce Buff
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Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›
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Conference on Intelligent Design Flees Portugal, Escapes Over the Border to Spain

Some ideas are just too risky to discuss in a university setting, and intelligent design is near the top of the list. Read More ›
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spider
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Don’t Be Frightened! It’s Just a Spider — An Exemplar of Intelligent Design

Spiders are part of the scary iconography of Halloween. But take a moment to appreciate the awesome natural design of their webs, and more. Read More ›
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Reverse Pinocchio
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Under Materialism, No Meaning to Life — and No Life, Either

Biologist Scott Turner’s spot-on phrase, the “Reverse Pinocchio,” captures the idea well. Read More ›
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In Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner Argues that Cognition Is Foundational to Life

The evidence of purpose and design permeate life at every level, and this evidence presents ever increasing challenges to all theories of undirected evolution. Read More ›
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David Snoke
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Physicist David Snoke: If DNA Is Designed, Its History by Definition Must Already Be Erased

Most people are accustomed to scientific explanations being historical in nature. Read More ›
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Scott Turner
Image: Cell mitosis in an onion root, by staticd (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›
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A “Facilitator” of the Intelligent Design Movement — Dembski Pays Tribute to His Father

He concludes with a link to the final scene from Babette’s Feast. If you watch it, or already know it, you’ll understand why. Read More ›
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Water — A Grand Story of Intelligent Design, Told by Michael Denton

Its unique properties allow it to fill many roles throughout the biological world, from forming the matrix of our cells, to regulating the temperature of our planet. Read More ›
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Dan Brown’s New Novel Pushes Atheism and Endorses Intelligent Design. Wait…What?

"[C]odes do not occur naturally in the world....Codes are the deliberate inventions of intelligent consciousness." Read More ›

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