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Jane Goodall
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Jane Goodall Meets the God Hypothesis

Goodall proves that rejecting materialism is not the end of the story. Even opening up the floor for intelligent design is not the end of the story. Read More ›
Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Read More ›
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How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Skeptics

There is so much misinformation about the theory of intelligent design that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature. Read More ›
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Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows that Materialism Doesn’t Work

The fact that nature is not predetermined in detail has been shown quite convincingly by the experimental confirmation of Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics. Read More ›
priest
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God Hypothesis in the Elitist’s Eye

The secularist is right to feel uncomfortable as he mouths a theistic creed. Theists, for their part, should respect this reluctance. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›
Statue of Philosophy
naturalism
Photo: Statue of Philosophy, Reading Room, Library of Congress, by Carol M. Highsmith, via Flickr.

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›
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Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›
Meyer Robinson
Photo: Peter Robinson and Stephen Meyer, via Uncommon Knowledge (screen shot).

Meyer, Robinson: Yes, Reason and Materialism CAN Be Separated

The great question behind Steve Meyer's new book is whether world-views can be objectively tested. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design May Speak to Young People’s Spiritual Interests

The rapidly changing religious demographics of American society constitutes an undoubtedly complex sociological issue that will resist easy explanation. Read More ›

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