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James-Tour
Photo: James Tour speaking at the 2019 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via Discovery Institute

Professor James Tour: A “Liar for Jesus”?

Renowned scientist James Tour at Rice University is facing the wrath of Internet trolls because of his candid evaluation of origin of life research. Read More ›
kingfisher
Darwinism
Photo: Azure Kingfisher, by JJ Harrison, [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism

The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains. Read More ›
Foresight Eberlin
intelligent design
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Gold Rush of Discovery Points Beyond Blind Evolutionary Process — to Foresight

We’re told that it’s out of bounds for science to go there. I take up that claim in the final chapter of my book, Foresight. Read More ›
Foresight Eberlin
intelligent design
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With Three Nobel Endorsements, Chemist Marcos Eberlin Advances Case for Intelligent Design

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›
Callao_Cave
fossil
Photo: Callao Cave, by Ervin Malicdem [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Fossil Human Species Thwarts Core Darwinian Predictions

I can hardly resist the temptation to say “I told you so,” or to jokingly remark, “Oops, they did it again.” Read More ›
The School of Athens
philosophers
Image: Detail from The School of Athens, by Raphael [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

Philosophers Want Back into Science

One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›
International Space Station
science
Photo: International Space Station, by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Experimental Science and Its Implications for Faith

A nice thing about being young is that you have no idea how much you do not know. Read More ›
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Lehigh
Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3

Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other. Read More ›
Manfred Eigen
catastrophe error
Photo: Manfred Eigen (second from the right) met with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1983, by Rob Croes / Anefo [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show

We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.” Read More ›
Sputnik 1
chance
Photo: A reproduction of Sputnik 1, an artificial satellite, National Air and Space Museum, by NSSDC, NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it? Read More ›

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