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Psychedelic trip created with generative AI technology
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NCSE Still Exists! A Hallucinatory Book Review from Jason Rosenhouse

Rosenhouse is in the same gallery of shame that C. W. Howell is, and that resulted in Howell’s book being yanked by the publisher, NYU Press. Read More ›
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Aggressive Atheism’s “Somewhat Different Delusion” Stalls Out Very Publicly

Imagine being such a poor evangelist for atheism that people credit you with helping them become Christians. Read More ›
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Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Richard

If I were an atheist, I would feel pretty discouraged about now by the New Atheist icon. Read More ›
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How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote

As you might have noticed, the critics of intelligent design I’m discussing here aren’t atheists or materialists. Read More ›
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NYU Press Pulls Anti-ID Book with Fabricated Quote from Michael Behe

“What happened is deeply ironic. This book was touted by the publisher as showing how ID's skepticism of Darwinism contributed to a ‘post-truth’ society." Read More ›
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Artistic depiction of many worlds interpretation showing several Earth-like planets across parallel universes
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Searching for a World, Any World, in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Journalists have a general rule for headlines called “Betteridge’s Law” that seems to apply in this case. Read More ›
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A cheetah in full pursuit of a gazelle across the African savanna during a dust-filled chase at golden hour
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On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design

Third Way and EES thinking shows that mainstream science is moving on a compass heading that is right in the direction of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Haunted by God: Remembering Sir Anthony Kenny

Kenny still appreciated a good church service and even did readings from the breviary. Unusually, he argued there was no reason why an agnostic shouldn't pray. Read More ›
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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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