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The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›
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Image: Tycho Brahe, via Skokloster Castle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Tycho Brahe Set an Unhelpful Precedent for Scientists

Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Kepler, his assistant. Read More ›
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Photo: Geysers of Enceladus, by NASA/JPL/SSI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Enceladus as a Habitability Test

High up on the astrobiologists’ bucket list for further exploration is a little moon of Saturn. How lively could it be at Enceladus? Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team.

Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

Melissa Cain Travis expounds on what she calls the principle of cosmic comprehensibility, the idea that the universe is intelligible to us. Read More ›
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Melissa Cain Travis Is in New Zealand — See Her in Tauranga This Weekend

Our colleague Dr. Melissa Cain Travis is among the most popular speakers on intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›
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Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Read More ›
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From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›
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In Dallas, Learn About Uncanny Synchronicity Behind the Comprehensibility of the Cosmos

The idea that the rational transparency of our cosmos has design implications came to fruition with the natural theology and astronomy of Johannes Kepler. Read More ›
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Live and In-Person in Dallas, February 17: Learn About Our Privileged Planet

Speakers will include philosopher Jay W. Richards, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer.  Read More ›

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