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Ide Trotter
Photo: Ide Trotter, PhD, Princeton-trained chemical engineer and Darwin skeptic, delivers testimony before the Texas State Board of Education.

We Will All Miss Ide Trotter

Ide was a straight-shooting no-nonsense Texan. He was as good a friend as intelligent design could have. Read More ›
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Photo credit: David Coppedge.

There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Read More ›
Small Magellanic Cloud
Photo: Small Magellanic Cloud, by NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA).

Intelligent Design’s Founding Father

Emily Nordhagen Sandico describes the origins of Thaxton’s book, which had such an influence on Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Phillip Johnson, and others. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›
Meyer Thaxton
Photo: Stephen Meyer and Charles Thaxton, by Chris Morgan.

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›
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Image: Thomas Love Peacock, National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›
Marx and Engels
Image: Marx and Engels, by E. Capiro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Linking Darwin Skepticism with Anti-Communism, Historian Offers a Misguided Attack

Weinberg's evidence that Discovery Institute uses intelligent design to bash communism is completely lacking. Read More ›
Phillip E. Johnson
intelligent design
Photo: Phillip E. Johnson, by Paul Nelson.

Stephen Meyer on Phillip Johnson’s Courage

“There are many many many people who have come to the water’s edge, who have seen the problems with Darwinian evolution, have counted the cost, and recoiled.” Read More ›
Orion Constellation
Photo: Orion Constellation, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Michael Denton on Fine-Tuning: Wheels Within Wheels

When it comes to evidence of fine-tuning in the universe, the more you look, the more you find. Read More ›
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Photo: NGC 6891, by NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

The Return to the God Paradigm

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm. Read More ›

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