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New Discovery Institute Center to Explore Threat, Promise, Limits of AI; Seattle Launch on July 11

The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence will focus on the profound concerns stirred by the mystery of minds. Read More ›
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Photo credit: U.S. Air Force/Lorna Gutierrez.

As a Critic of Intelligent Design, Nathan Lents Fails to Connect

Initially, I was pleased to find someone who might be an interesting new participant in the evolution debate. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›
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Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design

True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›
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Egnor: Two Weaknesses of Agentive Cosmopsychism

There are a limited number of explanations available for how cosmic fine-tuning came to be. Actually, there are three. Read More ›
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Farewell, Stephen Hawking

Recently, there was the increasing sense that he was being exploited by the media for his brilliant reputation. Read More ›
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Image: Louis Pasteur, by Sanjai B R 1840722, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›
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American Lysenkoism, and the Darwinists Who Embrace It

Today the term Lysenkoism applies to any use of government power to enforce scientific orthodoxy. Read More ›
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Tabby’s Star
Illustration: Tabby’s Star (artist’s interpretation), by TK.

Studying Tabby’s Star, Scientists Use the Design Filter — Non-Intelligent Causes Win This Round

Here’s a case where astronomers ruled out intelligent causes, despite their initial excited hopes. Read More ›
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Watch: Holiday Message from Stephen Meyer

Dr. Meyer reviews here some highlights of the past year, thanking our supporters for their crucial contributions to advancing the scientific argument for intelligent design. Read More ›

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