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Summer Seminars
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Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design — Unique Opportunity for the Sincerely Curious Learner

Recently I spoke to a university senior who is a leader in a political club at her school. I wondered how things were going for the club. Read More ›
Roger-bacon-statue

“No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True!

Michael Keas offers an important corrective to falsehoods that students are still learning at this very moment. Read More ›
lunar eclipse
Dark Ages
Photo: In a lunar eclipse, the shape of the Earth, round not flat, is obvious; by Rocky Raybellvia Flickr(cropped).

Listen: “Not Dark Ages After All”

Educated people in the medieval period were well aware that the Earth is round, a fact immediately evident when you see a lunar eclipse. Read More ›
cattle
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In Europe, Animal Rights Are Steamrolling Religious Freedom

As Western society secularizes, religious liberty is in danger of becoming passé. Read More ›
Berlin Wall
science & faith
Photo: Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz, in 1989 via U.S. Department of Defense.

Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, January 18-19: “Tear Down This Wall!”

One view, favored in the media and academia, says that faith stands separate from science, or that science has displaced faith. Read More ›
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Photo: Taylor Swift, by Eva Rinaldi [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Alt-Right’s Interest in Evolution Makes Sense. An Obsession with Taylor Swift? Much Less So

I heard a promotion on our local NPR station for a report about the alt-right and their dual infatuation with Medieval Europe and pop star Taylor Swift. Read More ›

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