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A New Design Inference for a New Generation

Is there an empirical method to determine whether a system is the product of chance or design? Read More ›
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Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›
Darwin's finch
Photo: Darwin's finch, by Victor Gleim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›
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Yes, Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence — Let’s Hear Some for Darwinian Evolution

Carl Sagan famously said, “I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Read More ›
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SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Radiotrophic fungus, by CDC/Dr. Leanor Haley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing

What about reports of a radiotrophic fungus near the Chernobyl nuclear accident that can feed off radiation? Read More ›
Spring on Saturn
Photo: Spring on Saturn, by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Dr. Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
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Photo: Marcos Eberlin speaking in Dallas, TX, this past Sunday night, by Chris Morgan.

Marcos Eberlin Has a Remarkable New Definition of Science

He suggests to me yet another good question to ask the next Darwinist you meet. Read More ›
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Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution

As a theistic evolutionist, Hans Vodder thinks God may well have used Darwinian evolution to create the full diversity of life. Read More ›

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