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Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis

Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts. Read More ›
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Michael Behe: What About “Bad” Designs in Biology? And Other Questions

Also in the mix, the issue of academic pressure to distance oneself from ID, even before those involved understand what the theory actually is. Read More ›
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Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More

Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Read More ›
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Biologist Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers

Pat Flynn and Jim Madden press Behe with objections — some philosophic, others scientific — to see how well his position stands up to scrutiny. Read More ›
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Why Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor Stopped Being a Materialist Atheist

"It seemed to me that there had to be a conductor to this orchestra. But being an atheist, I didn’t think that was possible." Read More ›
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Meyer: Is Intelligent Design Incompatible with Thomism?

Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer also discuss the beginning of the universe and the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life. Read More ›
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Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›
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If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect. Read More ›

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