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Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue
Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

A Darwinist Recognizes (Some of) the Stakes in the Intelligent Design Debate

I would be curious to hear how Darwinists like Dr. Freestone reconcile their evolutionism not just with religion but with their commitment to human equality. Read More ›
Lennox Sorbo
Lennox Sorbo
Photo: Kevin Sorbo and John Lennox, a scene from Against the Tide.

Optimism in a Dark Time: Meyer, Lennox, and the “God Hypothesis”

We are living in a dark time. The culture that holds up our nation rocks dangerously, buffeted by the winds of cult-like, nihilistic ideologies. Read More ›
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Photo: Another night of rioting in Portland, by Tedder / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

How Much of Today’s Anarchic Nihilism Can Be Laid at Darwin’s Feet?

See how much malignancy has been justified and advocated by some very smart people in the name of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
Spanish Inqusition

“Nobody Expects the Darwinist Inquisition”? I Do

It’s an ominous sight to observe the two waves approaching each other. On one side is an intensifying drive to police social media. Read More ›
Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
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A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence

Yuval Noah Harari quickly gets down to business, unsentimentally shredding Jefferson’s noble phrases. Read More ›
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At the Euthanasia Party

Is this kind of thing right or wrong? Some may see it as empowering, dying “his own way,” as the media continually put it. Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Walcott Quary, Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.</p>

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›
Sean Carroll
Photo: Sean Carroll, by Sgerbic (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Sean Carroll’s Preposterous Universe

The material universe must be caused, and it cannot be the cause of its own existence. Read More ›

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