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Scopes: Same Debate, Different World 

Understandably, the Scopes trial is often viewed through the lens of current debates surrounding evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: Hannah Arendt, by Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hannah Arendt and Stockholm Syndrome

Will Spencer talked with John West about his book on the coopting of Christian leaders. Read More ›
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From Science, New Respect for Non-Materialist Understandings of the Mind

Yes, there are still people who insist that science can only consider material causes and concepts. Read More ›
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Losing the Plot: How Materialism Can Blind Scientists to Purpose

How a materialistic worldview causes many scientists and science communicators to lose the plot and forget what science is all about. Read More ›
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Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.” Read More ›
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Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›
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Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›
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Photo: Walter Bradley at the launch of the Bradley Center, by Nathan Jacobson.

Walter Bradley and the Bradley Center

Unfortunately, rather than use AI to enhance our humanity, computational reductionists increasingly use it as a club to beat our humanity. Read More ›
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Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise

If the data points to outcomes that natural causes can't explain, then ruling out supernatural causes is not scientific humility — it’s religious dogma. Read More ›
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From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Read More ›

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