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Is Christianity Anti-Science? Find Out at Our Dallas Conference — Discount Ends December 14

It’s evident that religious and other leaders have done a poor job of addressing what Stephen Meyer calls the “God hypothesis.” Read More ›
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Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, January 18-19: “Tear Down This Wall!”

One view, favored in the media and academia, says that faith stands separate from science, or that science has displaced faith. Read More ›
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Toward Self-Scrutiny in Science

Think about how this kind of reasoning relates to the intelligent design and evolution debate. Read More ›
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Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps

Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge. Read More ›
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Can the Rot of Naturalism Be Stopped? Relating Information to Matter and Energy Might Help

A New Yorker obit for naturalist atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor noted Fodor’s dismissal of the “natural selection” cult but, surprisingly, did not offer polite contempt. Read More ›

James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry

A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want. Read More ›
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Beautiful Monster — Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique Is Here!

It's a MONSTER because it's 1007 pages, which means you'll probably still be reading it when the Chicago Cubs are in the World Series again. Read More ›
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On Origin of Life, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Delivers Chastisement to Jeremy England

“[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.” Oh, really, does it? Read More ›

From Atheist Jeffrey Shallit, a Telling Response on the Origin of Life

Shallit is a computer scientist at the University of Waterloo whom we've dealt with here on occasion before. Read More ›

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