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Darwin, Marx, and Freud: The Genealogy of “Posthumanism”

Exactly how posthumanism cashes out in contemporary cultural terms is the subject of a detailed study with new polling data by John G. West. Read More ›
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Photo: Barratt's Chapel, Kent County, Delaware (1780), oldest Methodist Church in the U.S., by David Ames [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

United Methodist Theologian Thomas Oden Understood the Importance of Intelligent Design

This year the United Methodist Church denied Discovery Institute's application simply to have a table with information about ID at their General Conference. Read More ›
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In Supporting Discovery Institute This Christmas Season, Please Consider All That Hangs in the Balance

Scientists, media commentators, and clergy are fooling themselves when they reassure you it's perfectly plausible that "God used evolution." Read More ›
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Photo: George Gilder speaking at Discovery Institute 25th anniversary reception, Ritz-Carlton, McLean, VA.

Leap Before You Look: Reflections on the Mission and “Evolution” of Discovery Institute

I helped form Discovery Institute 25 years ago and over that period, if I may use the term, it has evolved. Read More ›
The Red Spider Nebula: Surfing in Sagittarius - not for the faint-hearted!
Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. This warm planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars known and its powerful stellar winds generate waves 100 billion kilometres high. The waves are caused by supersonic shocks, formed when the local gas is compressed and heated in front of the rapidly expanding lobes. The atoms caught in the shock emit the spectacular radiation seen in this image.
Photo: Red Spider Nebula, by ESA/Garrelt Mellema (Leiden University, the Netherlands), via NASA.

Cosmic Coincidences? Materialism Faces a Choice Between Unsavory Options

Design in the universe is intuitively obvious, but when you won't allow yourself the obvious, what are your choices? Read More ›
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Photo: Douglas Axe leads a breakout session at "Beyond Materialism" conference.

A European Scientist on “Beyond Materialism” Meeting

"I will concentrate on the truly stunning and encouraging spirit of this event." Read More ›

ID’s British Invasion Is a Hit as We Complete the “Beyond Materialism” Conference at Cambridge U.

The Royal Society meeting may have been short on scientific fireworks, but "Beyond Materialism" was a great success. Read More ›
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More Reports from Confidential Informants at the Royal Society

ID sympathizers at the meeting "wonder whether we should all have some kind of signal...rub the left nostril twice perhaps?" Read More ›
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Horns of a Dilemma: Does Intelligent Design Do Too Little — or Too Much?

There's no pleasing some people. Read More ›
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Observatory temple, Chichén Itzá
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How Consensus Can Blind Science

Visiting a Mayan temple, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb had a revelation. Read More ›

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