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Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›
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From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds. Read More ›
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The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›
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Natural Selection: The God that Failed

The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Read More ›
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The Fate of Evolution Without Natural Selection

It does not seem reasonable to accept the veridical status of evolution on the basis of what an increasing number of scientists perceive as a “dodgy dossier.” Read More ›
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Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›
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Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: Archaeology and the Life of Jesus 

My presentation will explore archaeological discoveries illuminating a major event in the life of Jesus — his trial in Jerusalem. Read More ›
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Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm

A “hidden realm” behind the common-sense realm of “local realism” — this is the actual nature of the reality in which we live. Read More ›
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The Christmas Star — A Sign of Design

Part of the difficulty with arriving at a satisfactory theory for the Star stems from a compartmentalized approach. Read More ›

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