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Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind.  Read More ›
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Summer Seminar Application Deadline Extended to April 30

One of the biggest activities that I missed while living abroad in South Africa doing my PhD was participating in Discovery Institute’s Summer Seminars. Read More ›
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Nautilus at S.E.A. Aquarium, Singapore
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Why an Argument for God’s Existence Is Scientific

Atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is a fountain of nonsensical arguments against the existence of God. Read More ›
Spring on Saturn
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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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alien life
Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case

The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, "If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?" Read More ›
H. G. Wells
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Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Read More ›
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Can Science Answer All the “Big” Questions?

Peter Atkins is right that science can answer the biggest question we can ask. His problem is that he doesn’t like the answer science provides. Read More ›
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Photo: An oak tree, by Abrget47j [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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