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Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible. Read More ›
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Searching for a World, Any World, in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Journalists have a general rule for headlines called “Betteridge’s Law” that seems to apply in this case. Read More ›
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On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design

Third Way and EES thinking shows that mainstream science is moving on a compass heading that is right in the direction of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Polling the Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows, and What It Does Not

The nature of the surveys to which Phil Halper appeals is that they measure what physicists believe. They cannot measure what the evidence actually supports. Read More ›
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A Level Above: The Superiority of the Design Approach

"According to evolution, biology should be a level below human technology because evolution is constrained." Read More ›
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Physical Beauty, Mathematical Beauty, Scientific Beauty

Fifteen centuries ago, when he was falsely accused of treason, exiled from his home, and awaiting his execution, Boethius consoled himself with those words. Read More ›
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God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Read More ›
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Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think? Read More ›
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Cellular Design: More than Information, It Is the Manifestation of an Idea

I’ll attempt to describe an additional aspect of living organisms that highlights their “wholeness” and negates the possibility of reducing life to information. Read More ›
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Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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