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“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›
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Photo: Frederick and Flora Lugard, by Arnold Wright, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nigerian Experiment: Social Darwinism in Practice

In the late 19th century, Great Britain, the United States, and twelve European nations got together and divided Africa up among themselves. Read More ›
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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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Conceptual art journey to dream. Step into another world, Inside of brain, fantasy, escape from life concept. Made with Generative AI
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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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