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Photo credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens.

The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›
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Photo: Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.

Metaxas: A “Media Blackout” on the “Miracle of the Universe”

You are more likely to hear proponents of intelligent design being chastised even by media that ought to know better. Read More ›
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Photo source: “Why Our Sun and Atmosphere Appear Intelligently Designed,” via Discovery Institute.

Springtime Is High Season for Intelligent Design

What complexity there is in our water cycle, which brings life to many organisms and at the same time replenishes and renews itself. Read More ›
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Image credit: Johannes Vermeer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living. Read More ›
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Darwin Doubting Playwright Matt Chait Returns to the Hollywood Stage

Chait writes smart, concise dialogue on these subjects, and seems to have learned more than a thing or two from biologist Scott Turner’s recent book, Purpose and Desire. Read More ›
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Michael Behe, via Discovery Institute.

Booklist on Behe’s Latest: “Bound to Be Controversial”

The first pre-publication reviews of Michael Behe’s new book, Darwin Devolves, are starting to come in. Read More ›
David Hume
Photo: Statue of David Hume, Edinburgh, Scotland, by Bandan [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›
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Photo: A bust of Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck Society, Germany, via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” — Wait, What?

One might add that this analysis applies to the world of life as a whole. Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head

“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›
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Photo: J.P. Moreland, screen shot from a video promoting Theistic Evolution, via Crossway Books.

In a New Book, Philosopher J.P. Moreland Exposes Bankrupt Scientism

A chemist-turned-philosopher, J.P. Moreland approaches the intersection of science and worldviews with a love and respect for both. Read More ›

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