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Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Read More ›
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Iterations of Immortality

The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›
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New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›
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Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›
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Photo: Acid mine drainage, a home for archaea, by Jakec, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Elephant in the Science Lab

I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works. Read More ›
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Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›
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Photo: “...a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls...” (Rio Carrao, Venezuela), by Granville Sewell.

Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law

The laws of nature work together to create a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls, oceans and forests, animals and plants. Read More ›
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Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›
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Photo: Sockeye salmon, by Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Closer Look at the Science of Purpose

You cannot see what you are not looking for. You cannot find Br'er Rabbit until you look into the briar patch. Read More ›

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