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Do Physicalists Believe in Black Holes?

A materialist view of reality leaves out much of reality (love, reason, mercy, truth, etc.) so skittish materialists often call themselves “physicalists.” Read More ›
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Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion

Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized. Read More ›
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Phillip Johnson

Listen: In Berkeley, California, Stephen Meyer Honors Phillip Johnson

These messages come mostly from a November 2019 symposium held in Johnson’s honor in Berkeley, California. Read More ›
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Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: Two Conundrums for Strictly Materialist Views of Biology

“Nothing in nature will ever simultaneously go to both low entropy and high energy at the same time.” Read More ›
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Is ID the Best Kept Secret? No Longer

The statistics are impressive, but they don’t tell the whole story of the reach of our message or the lives impacted through our Media & Communications initiative. Read More ›
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#8 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Remembering Phillip E. Johnson (1940-2019)

Those of us in the community that seeks to advance the theory of intelligent design live in his presence every day. And we will continue to do so even following his death. Read More ›
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#9 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Ben Shapiro May Have Done the Best Interview with Stephen Meyer

He knows the common challenges to intelligent design and poses them very articulately, and he’s obviously absorbed Meyer’s books. Read More ›
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Breaches in the Wall: Reviewing a Year in the Life of Intelligent Design

The Seattle-based staff of Discovery Institute and the Center for Science & Culture just celebrated our Christmas luncheon. Read More ›
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Take Courage: 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, January 25; Register Now!

I’ve just been watching a remarkable video of a recent speech by Richard Dawkins, on the theme that atheists can “take courage” from the example of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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