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More Implausible Stories about Eye Evolution

Such accounts invoke the abrupt appearance of key features of advanced eyes including the lens, cornea, and iris. Read More ›
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Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Isaac Newton — Proto-Intelligent Design Advocate

Some atheists, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, have miscast Newton as a mechanist and a materialist, in their own image. Read More ›
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Photo: Douglas Axe at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Douglas Axe: Stupid Design? Or Elegant Invention?

You can watch Axe taking on arguments for “stupid design,” as offered by well known atheists like Neil deGrasse Tyson or lesser lights such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›
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Explore Intelligent Design in Molecular Biology with Douglas Axe at DiscoveryU

Dr. Axe devotes a lecture to scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s objection to intelligent design based on supposedly “stupid design” in nature. Read More ›
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Booklist — Meyer Offers “New Discoveries to Undermine” Science Atheists

Ha, coming from the American Library Association, the dart aimed at "anti-design theorists” Dawkins, Tyson, Nye is satisfying. Read More ›
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“Simulation Hypothesis” and Star Trek — Intelligent Design by Another Name

The universe may be intelligently designed and yet not be a simulation. The theory of intelligent design does not rise or fall with the simulation hypothesis. Read More ›
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Copernican Revolution Promoted Man’s Place in the Cosmos

In Copernicus’ day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected. Read More ›
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Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›
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From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths

Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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