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Photo credit: "Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula," by ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov.

Historical Reasoning, Modern Science: A Conversation with Winston Ewert

Dr. Ewert and I dive into the rich history of how early Christian thinkers engaged with the scientific consensus of their time. Read More ›
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Photo: Fred Hoyle in 1967 at Caltech, by American Institute of Physics (AIP), Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Matter Conserved? Ancient and Modern Views

Christians accepted that the principle, nothing comes from nothing, was true for processes in nature. God, however, was not bound by this limitation. Read More ›
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Photo: Nebula PMR 1, via NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI).

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›
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Image: Saint Augustine, by Philippe de Champaigne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It?

Ancient and medieval thinkers possessed impressive reasoning powers despite lacking modern technology and data. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin observing wildlife in the Galápagos Islands, surrounded by lush flora and fauna, including giant tortoises, birds, and exotic plants, symbolizing evolution
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He Taught Darwinism for Decades (Then Changed His Mind)

English Romantic poet William Wordsworth provided a philosophical barrier against reductionist views of life like those of Darwin. Read More ›
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Faith and Science Before Modern Science

Winston Ewert offers a surprising look at how Christians debated science theories in the ancient and medieval world. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).

The Birth of Science and of the Cosmos

Do we have to choose between science and God? Absolutely not, says philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Christianity Help or Hinder the Rise of Science?

Melissa Cain Travis explains why her new course gives special attention to the “warfare thesis,” a late-19th-century idea championed by materialists. Read More ›
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Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

Theistic Darwinism’s “Fully Gifted” Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science

Theistic evolutionists treat God as time-bound when it suits their argument, and beyond time when it suits their argument. Read More ›

Evolution May Obscure Reality, Says a Cognitive Scientist and Evolutionist

Purely naturalistic neo-Darwinism is self-defeating in its illogic. The consequences of this truth are far-reaching. Read More ›

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