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Andrew Klavan and Stephen Meyer Talk God and Science

Meyer and Klavan discuss a noted atheist philosopher who frankly admits that he doesn’t want theism to be true. Read More ›
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Harvard President Is Out Thanks to Design Filter

William Dembski explains in an excellent new podcast interview with Christopher Sernaque. Read More ›
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Cancelling the Human Mind: Experts Weigh In

Dualism — human consciousness is real, immaterial, and special — is the only approach that accords with the evidence. Read More ›
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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›
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John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Read More ›
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Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Read More ›
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A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›
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Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›
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Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community

Sometimes the suppression comes from the government. The restriction on doctors' freedom to use promising treatments during the pandemic was unprecedented. Read More ›
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Pressure, Propaganda, and Persecution through Mimesis

French philosopher René Girard discovered something new, new but very old, about human behavior. Read More ›

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