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In France, Barbarians Set Fire to Civilization; Design and the Designer Are the Targets

Says John West, “Students need to know. They don’t understand bad ideas have bad consequences. It’s like playing with fire.” That's no mere figure of speech. Read More ›
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The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Read More ›
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Positive and Near-Positive Aspects of Designer Science

In C. W. Howell’s mind, intelligent design is still recovering from the Dover trial, and if there’s evidence to the contrary, he doesn’t want to see it. Read More ›
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NYU Press Pulls Anti-ID Book with Fabricated Quote from Michael Behe

“What happened is deeply ironic. This book was touted by the publisher as showing how ID's skepticism of Darwinism contributed to a ‘post-truth’ society." Read More ›
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On a Special Anniversary, the Biochemical Challenge to Darwin Stands Strong

By intelligent design, you might say, August 1996 was the same month that John West and Stephen Meyer founded the Center for Science and Culture. Read More ›
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On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design

Third Way and EES thinking shows that mainstream science is moving on a compass heading that is right in the direction of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Vision Becomes Reality: The Center for Science and Culture at 30

What has changed dramatically is the nature, volume, and depth of the scientific evidence that supports ID. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design’s Summer Reading Sale — 40 Percent Discount While It Lasts!

You’re heading to that beach vacation. Or maybe like us in Washington State, you’re sneezing and coughing from the sunbaked wildfire smoke. Read More ›
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Mighty Darwin Has Struck Out: Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box

Most iconically of all, Behe gave us there the irreducibly complex bacterial flagellum. Right away, the flagellum hit the fan. Read More ›
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Read More ›

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