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spiral galaxy NGC 5037
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz.

The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion  

Self-appointed spokesmen for science often use the enormous size of the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies, as a club to beat up Christianity. Read More ›
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Photo: Alexander H. Stephens, by Matthew Brady, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›
Photo: Veil Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay.

The God Hypothesis Versus Atheist Science Denial

It is a scandal that atheism has such a hold on so many scientists that it corrupts their science and leads them to deny what is obvious. Read More ›
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Image credit: Brian Gage.

Life’s Origin — A “Mystery” Made Accessible

If you “listen to the experts,” or anyway some of the experts, cells are “little bags of garbage” and Miller-Urey is a “true simulation of prebiotic chemistry.” Read More ›
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Johannes Kepler
Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

Theistic Darwinism’s “Fully Gifted” Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science

Theistic evolutionists treat God as time-bound when it suits their argument, and beyond time when it suits their argument. Read More ›
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Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›
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Photo: A coronavirus, by CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM / Public domain.

“Follow the Science”? Free Webinar, May 16, on Scientism and Society

In discussions of the virus, you probably have noticed the prominent use of strangely religious-sounding pleas — “Follow the science!” “Listen to the scientists!” Read More ›
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#7 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Three Nobel Endorsements for Marcos Eberlin

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism? Read More ›

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