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For Darwin Day, Website Resists Disinformation Campaign Against Intelligent Design

If you like the idea of living in China, then the government using the Internet to tell everyone what to believe should sound like just the ticket. Read More ›
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Photo: Thomas Reid, by Stephencdickson / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›
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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man

Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth. Read More ›
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Photo: Portland riot, by Tedder / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›
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Image: Baruch Spinoza, about 1665, by an unknown artist / Public domain via Wikimedia.

The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›
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Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Photo: Phillip and Kathie Johnson at Pajaro Dunes, California.

Phillip E. Johnson: Gandalf Has Gone to the West

Phillip E. put it this way: “Take the ring to Mount Doom where only a miracle will save you and see.” This is one of the key lessons he taught me: dare to win. Read More ›
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Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror

It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof. Read More ›
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Essence and Existence in Modern Science

St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence. Read More ›
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Photo: Jerry Coyne on The Dave Rubin Show, via YouTube (screen shot).

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›

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