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Miracle of Man: Fine-Tuning for Blood and Breath

“Denton provides a scientific underpinning for a theistic humanism far beyond the nihilistic implications of so-called secular humanism,” writes Günter Bechly. Read More ›
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Examining “Professor Dave’s” Absurd Attack on Casey Luskin

The attack on Luskin is the most ludicrous part of the non-professor’s video, with Farina claiming at one point that Luskin perpetrated “a criminal offense.” Read More ›
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Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Read More ›
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What Is the Positive Case for Intelligent Design?

Imagine that you took your 4x4 truck off-roading and you returned home with the truck covered in mud. Read More ›
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Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium

By the time of his death, Stephen Jay Gould had come full circle, in effect, returning to traditional Darwinism. Read More ›
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“Darwin’s Nightmare”: First Episode of YouTube Series with Lukas Ruegger 

Relatively brief videos have emerged as one of the most dynamic and influential forms of education out there. Read More ›
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Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›
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Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils

Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity. Read More ›
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The Return of Teleology to Biology

Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›
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Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Read More ›

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