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C. S. Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, by Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by Hans Wild/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images).

C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason

Naturalists, like everyone else, generally trust their reason to lead them to truth. Read More ›
storm clouds
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Answering the Divine Hiddenness Argument for Atheism

In my recent debate with Matt Dillahunty about the existence of God, Dillahunty invoked his favorite argument against God’s existence. Read More ›
alien life
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Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Read More ›
Brian Keating
Photo: Brian Keating, by Brucelieberman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Brian Keating: Getting Nervous About “Follow the Science”

These are EXCELLENT. I would say the themes of all three have to do with the importance of not worshipping scientists or imagining that science is infallible. Read More ›
Sabine Hossenfelder
Photo: Sabine Hossenfelder, by HossenfelderS, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

Why should Sabine Hossenfelder think for a moment that anything that occurs to her has any correspondence to truth? Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Image: C. S. Lewis, by Anca Budisan.

C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientism’s Totalitarian Potential

According to Lewis, science steps dangerously outside its bounds when it assumes it has all knowledge, especially moral knowledge. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer

Stephen Meyer: Why Scientists Resist Intelligent Design, and More

“A lot of scientists, because of the influence of materialism, are inured to the reality of their own minds and therefore of minds in general.” Read More ›
Darwin
Origin of Species
Photo: Mural portrait of Charles Darwin, Sidney Street, Sheffield cc-by-sa/2.0 © Neil Theasby via Geograph.

On Universal Darwinism

Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology. Read More ›
Levallois
human origins
Photo: Levallois stone tool technology, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Bechly: Lessons from the Ongoing “Rewrite” of Human Origins

The traditional “Out of Africa” theory is being abandoned as weakly supported by evidence, in favor of a welter of other hypotheses. Read More ›
J.P.-Moreland
Photo: J.P. Moreland, at a launch event today for book Theistic Evolution, in Providence, R.I., by Doug Axe.

Scientism: Irrational, Self-Refuting, and Contradictory

Yet it hangs over and around all of us like the air we breathe, says philosopher J.P. Moreland in a new book reviewed by Tom Gilson. Read More ›

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