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Photo: Copper alloy arrowheads from the Bronze Age, Leicestershire, England, by The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Discovery of Metals — A Double-Edged Sword

Why should the melting points of common metals be attainable in furnaces heated by burning carbon-based organic matter? Read More ›
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Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide. Read More ›
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Image: William Wordsworth, by William Shuter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›
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Photo: Greyfriars Bobby, by IrenicRhonda, via Flickr (cropped).

Can Myths About Dogs Tell Us About Their Origins?

A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archaeology. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Guy.Baroz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Read More ›
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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

Is Genesis “Mytho-History”? As a Guide to Scripture, William Lane Craig’s Book Falls Short

As an old earther, I was dismayed by Craig’s failure to engage with common old earth interpretations of Genesis. Read More ›
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Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism

From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›
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Medical Journal Declares War on Natural Gas

Never mind that the U.S.’s increased reliance on natural gas has allowed us, pretty much alone in the world, to actually reduce our carbon emissions. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, by Daniel Reeves.

ID Meeting in Israel — Next Year in Jerusalem?

This was a remarkably cross-disciplinary dialogue among physicists, chemists, biologists, neuroscientists, as well as philosophers and historians of science. Read More ›
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Bechly: Lessons from the Ongoing “Rewrite” of Human Origins

The traditional “Out of Africa” theory is being abandoned as weakly supported by evidence, in favor of a welter of other hypotheses. Read More ›

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