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New Book: God Hypothesis, European Style; Events at Princeton, Berkeley

In the faith context, the popular picture in America of what Europe is like — the land that God forgot — may need to be revised. Read More ›
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Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›
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Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science

For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk. Read More ›
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Dawkins: Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Hypothesis

"The idea that the universe was actually created by a supernatural intelligence is a dramatic, important idea." Read More ›
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What Drives All that “New Physics” Hype? Could It Be Fear of Intelligent Design?

Many thinkers are troubled by the massive evidence for fine-tuning of our universe. They want to believe that a multiverse just popped into existence. Read More ›
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One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›
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Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA” 

We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm. Read More ›
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The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›
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To Reject Intelligent Design, Here’s What You Have to Believe

The prevailing view in science today is that physics explains all of chemistry, and chemistry explains all of biology. Read More ›
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Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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