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Photo: Garden fairies, by helena.40proof, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Materialistic Models Accommodate the Scientific Data?

Would you believe someone who claimed that fairies and leprechauns were caught on video, but they are too small or too fast to be seen? Read More ›
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Photo: NGC 6891, by NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design and What Are Its Theistic Implications?

Before Darwin, biologists attributed the beauty, integrated complexity, and adaptation of organisms to their environments to a powerful designing intelligence. Read More ›
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Photo: Detail of Darwin statue, Natural History Museum, London, by Rept0n1x (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda

Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›
Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment

If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: Nanotech, Origin of Life, and Area 51

Dr. Miller offers an illustrative story: Imagine that what looks for all the world like an alien spaceship is discovered in the desert. Read More ›
March for Science
Photo: Bill Nye and the March for Science, by Paul and Cathy / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

When “Science” Becomes a Cult

The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Read More ›
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baby
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Why Should a Baby Live?

My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›
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Photo: An Arabian babbler, by Yoavd / Public domain.

Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not?

Darwinism is supposed to be a universal theory about biological diversity advancing through reproduction. Could such a basic observation be beyond its scope? Read More ›
Statue of a young Charles Darwin
Statue of a young Charles Darwin
Photo: Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

The Opossum’s Tale: The Torley Saga, Cont.

I'll make this simple. The evidence for synteny in opossums and chickens is good. Surprised? Read More ›

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