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Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks Pours Cold Water on ChatGPT Hype

Are you tired of hearing about ChatGPT yet — "basically high-tech plagiarism," as Noam Chomsky has said? Read More ›
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Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Circuitous Journey to Faith

Today’s episode is the first in an occasional series, "Why It Matters," spotlighting ID researchers and hearing from them how they got into intelligent design. Read More ›
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Can a Human Be Gifted Despite Missing Lots of Brain?

Most of what is going on in the human mind is not as dependent on the brain as some approaches to neuroscience would require. Read More ›
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Why Researchers Focus on Possible Life on Venus

Chemicals that we shouldn’t find unless they are produced by life forms are sparking interest in exploring Venus from both public and private sources. Read More ›
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#9 Story of 2021: Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Have a Poor Track Record

For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›
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Great Christmas Gift — Proofs of God Translates Design Arguments for Young Students, Teenagers

Sometimes the best way to learn is when you’re having fun and don’t even realize that you’re learning. Read More ›
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Leonard Sax on Intelligent Design and the “Ambiguity of the Evidence”

Stephen Meyer offers but does not seek to compel the choice to affirm a transcendent origin of the universe. Read More ›
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Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›

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