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Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life. Read More ›
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Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Read More ›
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Wisdom Wednesday: NOT a “God of the Gaps” Argument

Brandon McGuire (of the Daily Dose of Wisdom podcast) and Stephen Meyer offer a wide-ranging discussion about Dr. Meyer's work. Read More ›
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On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff

Tour issued his challenge in reply to the false claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed. Read More ›
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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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Our Conferences Are a Force Multiplier — Here’s How That Works

As a service consultant at a high-end car dealership, Walt likes to share what he learns with his customers. Read More ›
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Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

“Once you accept a Darwinian materialist view of nature," says Professor Pearcey, “logically speaking you are going to end up with a low view of the body.” Read More ›
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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Image: Tower of Babel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards on Babel, Berlinski, and “Science After Darwin”

Something really came undone in the Covid era. Now, the phrase “science says” or “doctors say” prompts a smirk from about half the population.  Read More ›

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