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Karl Marx

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Designer Science Repeats Common Misunderstandings of Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Read More ›
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The Dallas of Everything: Stephen Meyer’s Completed Pilgrimage

No one voice dominates the narration, with specialists who’d been interviewed stepping in to recount the parts of the story with which they’re familiar. Read More ›
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In the Sweep of History, Two Great Competing Stories

We are on the threshold of greater discovery and flourishing than ever because of a quiet, but growing reconciliation between trust in science and trust in God. Read More ›
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The Flocking of Crowds: The Secular University and Unstable Mass Conformism

A bird sees another bird next to him fluttering, and he wants to flutter that way, too. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Doubts: A Scientist Betrayed by His Own Followers

I will argue that employing Darwin in this way is false twice over: First, it is not what Darwin made himself out to be. Read More ›
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Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Is Undeniable 

The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›
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Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism 

Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›
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Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›
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What Is Primary: Mind or Matter? 

The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›

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