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What Is a Person, and How Do We Know?

The characteristics invoked in the abortion debate — consciousness, rationality, and intrinsic human dignity — function as recalcitrant facts for naturalism. Read More ›
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Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Read More ›
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Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will: A Reply to Jerry Coyne

A moral society is something entirely different from a well-run pigeon farm or a flourishing bottle of fruit flies. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor: Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book

In the absence of free will, “morality” can make no claims about anything. It's only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains. Read More ›
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When Nancy Pearcey Walked Away from Christianity

On a new episode of ID the Future, we’re sharing a conversation with author, speaker, and professor Nancy Pearcey that originally aired on the eX-skeptic Podcast. Read More ›
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Do Brain-Jolts Really Explain Near-Death Experiences?

One change I have noticed recently is that science writers seem a bit more careful with the topic than they used to be. Read More ›
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Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander on “Cosmic Signposts” Pointing to Intelligent Design

Dr. Salviander was deeply influenced by science fiction and by the popular astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. Read More ›
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Why Darwinian Theory Threatens the Declaration of Independence

Dr. John West highlights how modern scientific discoveries in biology, physics, and cosmology are now reinforcing the core claims of the Declaration. Read More ›
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Status Signaling in the Herd: Why Otherwise Good Scientists Sneer at Intelligent Design

"Here is Johnson, giving a very studious argument for ID, and the other fellow thinks it’s sufficient to say, 'I know it's wrong because my friend told me.'" Read More ›
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Darwinism’s Attack on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God

Needless to say, this new view of morality is toxic to the Founders’ understanding of liberty. Read More ›

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