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Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and Natural Theology

How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›
Charles Darwin
throne
Photo: Charles Darwin, enthroned, by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›
Jeremy England
Image: Jeremy England lectures in Stockholm, via YouTube.

Unbelievable Conversation about the Origin of Life

Physicist Brian Miller and host Eric Anderson explore a recent conversation between physicists Jeremy England and Paul Davies. Read More ›
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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life

Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life. Read More ›
An Interstellar Distributor
Photo: ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Stanghellini.

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Read More ›
tap dancers
Photo: Tap dancing, Iowa State College, 1942, by Jack Delano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›
Top 6 Evidence for Intelligent Design
Image: "Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt.

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›
Ghost Nebula
Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified. Read More ›
Lucretius
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›

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