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What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›
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A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30

As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Read More ›
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No. 2 Story for 2025: My Conversation with Denis Noble About Intelligent Design

In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›
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Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism

Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Read More ›
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Darwinists Fear Conversations Like the One Casey Luskin Just Had with Denis Noble

As Casey Luskin described yesterday, he had a fruitful and genial online discussion recently with Oxford University biologist and physiologist Denis Noble. Read More ›
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My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design 

In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›
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UN Pushes Nature Rights

The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›
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The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›
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Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled: Get Ready for Revolutions

It might be early to say whether Richard Sternberg's calculations are correct — but the point is, this kind of calculation is only just becoming possible. Read More ›
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Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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