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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
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Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
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Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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René Descartes

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Daniel Witt
Date
March 5, 2025
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›
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Photo: A briar patch, by Phil Gayton from Totnes, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
September 26, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor 

Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 26, 2024
Intelligent Design, Medicine
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It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
August 28, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Philosophy
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Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?

Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 28, 2024
Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Philosophy
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One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano. Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
August 12, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 12, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
5
Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
April 25, 2024
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Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
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A Closer Look at Natural Law 

Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024
Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy
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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›
Noam Chomsky
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William A. Dembski
Date
January 30, 2024
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Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024
Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
December 21, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›
Descartes
René Descartes
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
December 4, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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How to Overcome Scientism

Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Philosophy
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Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically.  Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
November 1, 2023
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Understanding the Limits of Scientism

Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 1, 2023
Biology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed.  Read More ›
Descartes
René Descartes
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Eric Hedin
Date
August 15, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

Eric Hedin
August 15, 2023
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›

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