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Watch: Jay Richards on the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

Eric Sammons is a personable interlocutor who realizes, by the end of the interview, that he was an intelligent design proponent all along without realizing it. Read More ›
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Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

A Living and Symphonic Order — Appreciating Anthony Esolen

I knew I wanted to choose someone who wrote beautifully. He, however, was someone I didn't know, and I could not predict his views on intelligent design. Read More ›
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Revealing God’s Grandeur — Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Teachings of the Catholic Church

The last few chapters deal with subjects that theistic evolutionists like to use against ID: Aristotle, Aquinas, and randomness. Read More ›
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Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›
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Here’s a New Evolutionary Theory Based on Information

Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution. Read More ›
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NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism. Read More ›
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The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›
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Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man’s Origin 

Proponents of the ruling theory tell us that we are all undoubtedly intelligent enough to fully grasp their theory, as long as we concur with it. Read More ›
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Listen: Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Randomness in Natural Selection

As Lönnig points out, Richard Dawkins and others are at great pains to deny the connection. Why would that be? Read More ›

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