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Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid
Photo: Thomas Reid, by Stephencdickson / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, via Wikimedia Commons.

A. R. Wallace Is Evolution’s Last Man Standing

Only Wallace’s postulation of an “Overruling Intelligence” to explain the complexities of humanity and nature has stood the test of time. Read More ›
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Galápagos Pilgrim: Paul Nelson on Biological Design and History

Can modern intelligent design theory accommodate the fact that species evolve in historical time? 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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Image source: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA.

Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?

Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order. Read More ›
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Historian and Nature’s Prophet Author Michael Flannery Reviews the Reviewers

A.R. Wallace was the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection along with Charles Darwin, but in 1869 he broke with Darwin. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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A Watch on a Heath — But What a Watch!

Recently I had the opportunity to see Prague’s famed astronomical clock, the oldest still-working astronomical clock in the world. It is truly phenomenal. Read More ›
David Hume

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

From Charles Darwin, a Wonderful Lesson in Character

If such a break between old colleagues happened now, the results would likely be very different. Read More ›

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