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Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
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Photo: A medium exuding "ectoplasm," by Harvey Metcalfe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›
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Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design

The multiverse concept posits the existence of many other universes, each with different sets of physical parameters. Read More ›
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Photo: Lawrence Krauss, in Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

These evasions include the steady state model, the idea of an eternal cyclical universe, and the string landscape model. Read More ›
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Photo: NGC 6891, by NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design and What Are Its Theistic Implications?

Before Darwin, biologists attributed the beauty, integrated complexity, and adaptation of organisms to their environments to a powerful designing intelligence. Read More ›
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Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›
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#7 Story of 2021: Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›
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Photo: NGC 6891, by NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

The Return to the God Paradigm

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm. Read More ›
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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin 

I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists. Read More ›
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Meyer: No Escape from a Mind Behind the Universe

Cosmologists of an atheist disposition have been seeking an escape hatch from the implications of the Big Bang. Read More ›

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