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Michael Polanyi

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Photo (L to R): Stephen Meyer, Roger Olsen, Walter Bradley, and Charles Thaxton in 2020, by Chris Morgan.

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Photo: American mastodons, by Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Metaphysics of Irreducible Complexity

The vastness of life’s complexity is no longer unfathomable when seen through the light of purpose. Read More ›
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Photo: Small Magellanic Cloud, by NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA).

Intelligent Design’s Founding Father

Emily Nordhagen Sandico describes the origins of Thaxton’s book, which had such an influence on Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Phillip Johnson, and others. Read More ›
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Meyer’s God Hypothesis — Christmas Selection from Aleo Review of Books

There’s no discernible agenda other than enjoying good books. They promise “Reviews shorter than books.” That’s a concept. Read More ›
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Image: Portrait of John Brown, by Ole Peter Hansen Balling (1872), via Wikimedia Commons.

Aeschliman: The Charles Darwin/John Brown Connection

The year 1859, when Darwin changed the course of science and when John Brown rebelled and died, was a profound historical turning point. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, by Nathan Jacobson.

Meyer: Every Worldview Must Have Its Prime Reality

What about the multiverse to explain the fine tuning of the laws and constants of physics? It is a solution of sorts, but it comes at a tremendous cost. Read More ›
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That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›
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What Precipitated the Intelligent Design Movement?

Here are some thoughts prompted by a rather curious question posed to me in an email, namely, “What were the findings that most helped ID since the turn of the millennium?” Read More ›
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Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Examining Randy Isaac’s Critique of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics

The standard evolutionary model is incapable of driving major transformations such as a fish evolving into an amphibian. Read More ›

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