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Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›
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A Diffident Revolutionary

In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›
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Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›
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Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›
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Re-Examining the Arguments for the Existence of God

I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science and well-known apologist Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Listen: Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”

Brierley talks with thinkers whom you don’t regularly see in direct dialogue, from Stephen Meyer to Denis Noble to Roger Penrose to Paul Davies. Read More ›
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Science, Scripture, and the Image of God

"The proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories." Read More ›
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Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›
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Phillip E. Johnson: A Reading List from Gandalf

Watch an interview when he was healthy and you will see a man who swam in English like a dolphin loved water. Read More ›

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