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Michael Behe

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SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Next-Door Neighbors of Intelligent Design

What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND. Read More ›
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But in Principle, WHY Does Intelligent Design Predict Ultimate Engineering?

A possible objection to Dr. Burgess’s case for ID might be that the apparent superb design of the human body is what you’d expect from evolution. Read More ›
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NCSE Still Exists! A Hallucinatory Book Review from Jason Rosenhouse

Rosenhouse is in the same gallery of shame that C. W. Howell is, and that resulted in Howell’s book being yanked by the publisher, NYU Press. Read More ›
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C. W. Howell Scrubs Fabricated Behe Quote from Dissertation Without Coming Clean

The ethical thing would have been to apologize and admit the seriousness of his mistake. His smoking gun, after all, wasn’t just a dud. It was imaginary. Read More ›
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How a Self-Confessed “Miniature Richard Dawkins” Found His Way to Intelligent Design

Whether learning from a professor or chatting with a fellow student over coffee, Martin never ran into anyone to challenge his naturalistic worldview. Read More ›
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Carbon Atom Is Stunningly Fit to Accommodate Advanced Life

Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life. Read More ›
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Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?

On March 26–28, 1992, scientists and philosophers assembled at Southern Methodist University for an event whose title posed a provocative question. Read More ›
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My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago

After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›
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Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus.  Read More ›

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