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Fighting a Battle That’s Over, and ID Won, Designer Science Omits Key Portions of ID’s History

I want to be fair to Howell, but I also want to be fair to my colleagues who have worked hard developing and publishing new ID arguments over the past 20 years. Read More ›
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Modern white laboratory interior with scientists in lab coats working on computers and test tubes, motion blur effect for dynamic research scene
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Read More ›
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A Note on the “Compensation” Argument

This debate is not really too complicated for the layman to understand, though it seems to be too simple for many scientists. Read More ›
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Photo: Clementinum Library, Prague, by Václav Jiroušek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Implossibility (No, Spell-Check Didn’t Fail Me)

What is the probability of forming a book with at least one hundred words in a row, if we are sampling from the Hebrew alphabet? Read More ›
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Image: Issac Newton, by William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Revisiting the Dover Case in Light of C. W. Howell’s Recent Book

I am widely quoted (from my public writings), but often Howell misses the mark even when an email to me could have cleared up his confusion. Read More ›
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Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens.
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Luskin: The State of the Intelligent Design Debate

Terrell Clemmons asked, "Where have you seen the ID movement make strides?" This is some of the material that I wish someone would share with Elon Musk. Read More ›
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The Divide Between Science and Non-Science

The most commonly heard charge against ID is that it “isn’t science” and therefore can’t even be evaluated as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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The closeup image of Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) wing. a southeast Asian species of megabat, primarily feeds on flowers, nectar and fruit.
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Professor Stern Cardinale Stumbles on Bat Wing Evolution

Behe was right. Dan Stern Cardinale really shouldn’t have called him liar for stating the truth. That was not a good idea. Read More ›
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Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the “Stop Hitting Yourself” Argument 

A look at an underexamined rhetorical device, in the hands of Wikipedia and other ID critics. Read More ›

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