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It’s Black Friday: Get Your New ID-Themed Calendar!

New this year is Wondrous Water, a calendar featuring gorgeous water photography. Read More ›
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Holiday Shopping Is Almost Here!

We have T-shirts, mugs, notebooks, hats, wall art, calendars, puzzles (like the Amazing Colorful Moon Satellite Photo Composite Jigsaw Puzzle, above), and more. Read More ›
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Meyer on Front-Loaded Intelligent Design, and More

Stephen Meyer says he doesn’t have an in-principle objection to that idea. Read More ›
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Image: William Paley, by George Romney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards: A Look Back at Paley and Hume

Dr. Richards addresses David Hume’s critique of analogical arguments like those used by William Paley. Read More ›
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Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Mugs? We’ve Got Them

For our biochemistry geeks, one mug contains both the periodic table of elements and a DNA-amino acids codon wheel. Read More ›
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Photo: Moon over Seattle's Space Needle, by Nathan Jacobson.

Intelligent Design and the “Transformative” Summer Seminar: A Student Reflects

What about the charge that ID is a “curiosity killer,” tempting scientists to answer every natural mystery with a shrug and a “God did it”? Read More ›
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Selective focus on a tall, dark lamp post during a snow storm in the pacific northwest woodland
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C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions

Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for? Read More ›
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Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion

Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized. Read More ›
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Science as a Jealous God — Free Weekend Conference in Seattle for College Students

January 30 is the deadline to apply for this important, enlightening, and fun event, organized by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) and held in Discovery Institute’s offices. Read More ›

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