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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

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On the Origin of Species

Earthquake_at_Lisbon
Image: An 1883 depiction of the great Lisbon earthquake, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
Date
September 11, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Darwin and the Problem of Pain

Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science
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For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›
Charles-Darwin
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 5, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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What Ever Happened to Darwin’s Big Book?

Denyse O’Leary
September 5, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Why didn’t Darwin publish the evidence for his momentous theory? And why was his thesis hailed as one of the greatest ideas in science despite that fact? Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
Date
August 8, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science
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This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Julian Herzog (Website), CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
July 3, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
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With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science
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In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›
cicada
Photo credit: Katja Schulz, via Flickr, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
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David Coppedge
Date
May 29, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design

David Coppedge
May 29, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Eastern U.S. states will see a natural phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for many years: the coordinated emergence of two broods of noisy cicadas. Read More ›
Charles-Darwin
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Jonathan Witt
Date
May 29, 2024
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
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Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps 

Jonathan Witt
May 29, 2024
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning
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A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Read More ›
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Photo: A scene from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, via YouTube (screenshot).
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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 11, 2024
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Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

Peter Biles
May 11, 2024
Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
March 14, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

David Coppedge
March 14, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing. Read More ›
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Neil Thomas
Date
March 13, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

Neil Thomas
March 13, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science
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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
Photo: Beetles collected by Charles Darwin, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
February 21, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Darwin’s Bluff Is a Number 1 New Release on Amazon!

David Klinghoffer
February 21, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Charles Darwin seems never to have been with honest with himself about the fact that his big book about the actual evidence for his theory could not be written. Read More ›

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