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Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›
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Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›
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Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›
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Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence

The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor: Judeo-Christian Culture and the Rise of Modern Science

Dr. Egnor addresses the claim that the rise of atheism has somehow been a boon to science. Not so, Egnor says. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer Takes Questions, Including: “Has Science Matured Past Its Christian Origins?”

Granted that the early scientists were Christians, does it follow that science necessarily supports Christianity or any form of theism? Read More ›
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Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›

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