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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.

In Appreciation of Ide Trotter

A memory stands out. It was the evening he was honored by family, friends, ID scholars Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, and Walter Bradley along with James Tour. Read More ›
Aquinas
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.Design.

New Book Offers the CATHOLIC Case for Intelligent Design

The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, power, and purpose — of its exquisite and intelligent design. Read More ›
Alhambra
Photo: Architectural detail, Alhambra palace, Spain, by Yves Remedios, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer, Craig, Turek: Examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument

Kalam is a reference to ideas in medieval Islamic philosophy that William Lane Craig singlehandedly did much to revive. Read More ›
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Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›
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Johannes Kepler
Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis: In Defense of Stephen Meyer’s Book Title

What Dr. Meyer did was enter the atheist camp, take up their flawed tools, and defeat them with their own weapons. Read More ›
Turin
Photo: Turin, Italy, by Hpnx9420, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

John West in Turin, Italy: Intelligent Design’s Roots and Fruit

West celebrates Italy’s contributions to civilization but also calls attention to Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who championed various racist ideas. Read More ›
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brain
Image credit: geralt, via Pixabay.

Apart from Non-Material Consciousness, Science Is Impossible

Whether and how we choose to measure something has a big impact, which makers consciousness very difficult to just explain away. Read More ›
Melissa Wehmann Sewell (1953-1991) with Chris
Photo: Melissa Wehmann Sewell (1953-1991) with Chris, by Granville Sewell.

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Pain

It is often claimed that the design inference is a religious conclusion. It is not. Read More ›
Dembski
Photo: William Dembski, via Discovery Institute.

William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic

Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years. Read More ›

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