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Eugenics Movement Presents Remarkable Historical Parallels with “Gender-Affirming Care”

Pushing trans theory on young children, molding their brains before they’ve reached the age of consent, is hardly giving them a free choice. Read More ›
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Our Education Isn’t Free: Let’s Say “Thank You!” for It Together

The culture out there is the violent waves and stormy winds that oppose us, and would plunge us to the bottom of the sea if they could. Read More ›
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The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer

"ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers." Read More ›
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Slaying Leviathan Conference: John West on C. S. Lewis, Scientocracy, and More

On Saturday in Tacoma, he will also discuss what we can learn about the relationship between faith and politics from American history in the 1800s. Read More ›
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Listen: Demonizers and Dehumanizers

John West urges supporters of vaccinations to meet the other side not with insults but with reasoned discourse and scientific evidence. Read More ›
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Debate Over Design in the Early Church Is Eerily Current

The early Christians debated the Greco-Roman materialists but also the religious Gnostics of their day. Read More ›
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West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer

If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good an engineer was the one behind those living systems? Read More ›
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John West: Darwin’s Corrosive Idea

Darwin’s materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism. Read More ›
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Marks, Dembski: AI Hype and the “Illusion of Possibility”

The materialist agenda is served by AI hype, while the human mission is damaged. And that is what is at stake. Read More ›

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