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When the Experts Disagree on the Origin of the Universe…

As with life, the beginning of our universe entailed special conditions, not only of the laws of physics, but also of the arrangement of its component atoms. Read More ›
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Image: Issac Newton, by William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“ID Takes Center Stage”: Brian Miller on the Meyer/Halper Debate

"Halper is one of the most formidable proponents of atheism, but he also admits that the discussion with Meyer was 'the toughest debate I’ve ever had.'" Read More ›
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Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Read More ›
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Photo: A scene from The Story of Everything, by Nathan Jacobson.

The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that. Read More ›
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Incoming Irony: Hawking’s “Own Work Pointed to Need for a Transcendent Mind”

“Hawking’s own work in every way pointed to a creation event, and he spent a lot of the rest of his life trying to find a way around that." Read More ›
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The Story from Seattle: West Coast Premiere of Documentary Shines

The oldest girl said about the irreducibly complex motor of the bacterial flagellum, “We just learned about bacteria in school, but we didn’t learn that!” Read More ›
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Photo: The author chats with William Dembski, Bijan Nemati, and Stephen Meyer, by Dale Woodall.

Dispatch from Dallas: Documentary Premieres Where It All Started

There is something fitting, even story-like, about Meyer's presence at the Dallas premiere. Read More ›
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Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›
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Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›
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Watch: Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, at the Doors of the Cavendish Lab

Even these atheist scientists recognized that beauty was a marker that pointed to truth in their field, in which they too could take pleasure. Read More ›

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