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Photo: David Berlinski via the Ben Shapiro Show.

New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›
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James Tour Focused on Science, Dave Farina on Character Assassination: So, Who Wins?

Professor Dave’s attacks undercut his credibility as a spokesman for his own view. If he had the truth on his side, there’s no reason he would behave this way. Read More ›
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Photo: Ide Trotter, PhD, Princeton-trained chemical engineer and Darwin skeptic, delivers testimony before the Texas State Board of Education.

Chemist James Tour Remembers Ide Trotter

The famous physicist Professor Lawrence Krauss approached and mockingly spoke of the content at the table. Ide looked Professor Krauss in the eye. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA and G. Gilmore (University of Cambridge); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›
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Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›
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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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