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Carina-Nebula
Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

A Living and Symphonic Order — Appreciating Anthony Esolen

I knew I wanted to choose someone who wrote beautifully. He, however, was someone I didn't know, and I could not predict his views on intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ⓒ David Coppedge.

Epigenetic Biotimer Revealed in Flowers

What goes into getting a flower to develop on a stem is mind-boggling, reports a Darwin-free paper. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Maxim Tajer via Unsplash.

Here’s Another Transhumanist Dream Come True — Revisiting Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Despite all the transhumanist predictions of the Singularity, it’s hard to dismiss the fact that to a certain degree we’ve already merged with our machines. Read More ›
African savannah
Photo: African savannah, by Javier Puig Ochoa, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Read More ›
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Photo: Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, by Historic American Buildings Survey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›
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Photo: An orchestra without a conductor, by Harry Weller, Del57 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion

In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is. Read More ›
flies in amber
Photo: Flies in amber, by Manukyan Andranik, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Read More ›
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<p>Photo credit: Bryan Thompson via Unsplash.</p>

Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›
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Biology Journal: Evolutionary Psychology Is “Impossible”

Did evolutionary scientists not understand these things already? Read More ›
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From Pfizer, Scientism and Self-Congratulation

Amidst a controversial national lockdown, economic ruin, and mounting intelligence evidence pointing to an origin in a Chinese lab, the coronavirus has reminded us of a number of things. Read More ›

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