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Photo: C. S. Lewis, by Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by Hans Wild/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images).

C. S. Lewis on “Creative Evolution,” or the “Life-Force”

"The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you." Read More ›
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Image source: William Dembski.

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Read More ›
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Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: Clouds of Jupiter, by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA)/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.

Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix

Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning. Read More ›
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From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting

With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan. Read More ›
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Fire show, dancing with flame, male master juggling with fireworks, performance outdoors, draws a fiery figure in the dark, bright sparks in the night. A man in a suit LED dances with fire.
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Roasting a Straw Man: Evolutionist Michael Ruse on Thomas Nagel

You're driving along and notice that a bright philosopher has just mangled beyond recognition the argument of another bright philosopher. Read More ›

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