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COSM 2025 Will Feature Nobel Laureate Physicist and Skeptic John F. Clauser

Discovery Institute’s upcoming COSM 2025 tech conference will feature something a little different. Read More ›
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Photo: John Calvert, courtesy of Bill Harris.

Remembering John Calvert, a Bulldog for Objective Scientific Education

Calvert's tenacious commitment to seeing origins science taught objectively in public schools serves as a courageous example. Read More ›
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No. 9 Story of 2024: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›
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Image: Frontispiece of Bible Moralisée. “God the Geometer,"artist unknown, circa 1220–1230, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Read More ›
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Photo: Jean-Pierre Luminet, courtesy of the author.

New Book from DI Press, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, Praised by Three Nobel Laureates

Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›
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Photo: Steven Weinberg (third from left) with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, by Croes, Rob C. / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Year in Review: Intelligent Design Grows in Influence and Depth

Our researchers will continue to support and communicate what represents the earliest stages in the next great scientific revolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).

On Cosmic Origins, “James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed Nothing to Overturn Consensus”

Stephen Meyer addresses challenges to the Big Bang model, including a claim that images from the James Webb Space Telescope had panicked cosmologists. Read More ›

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