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What George Church, Famed Harvard Geneticist, Says About Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design

"As a scientific discipline, many people have casually dismissed Intelligent Design without carefully defining what they mean by intelligence or what they mean by design." Read More ›

Dean Koontz on Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt: “Writes Beautifully,” “Marshals Complex Information as Well as Any Writer I’ve Read”

It's the science that really matters but it's good to have my own evaluation confirmed that Darwin's Doubt is also a piece of very effective science writing. Read More ›

George Gilder: Darwin’s Doubt Is “Best Science Book Ever Written,” “Will Be Read for Hundreds of Years”

As we approach the publication date of Darwin's Doubt, I note that today happens to be the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky's revolutionary Rite of Spring. Read More ›
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William Dembski on BioLogos and Theistic Evolution at Patheos

Dembski's point is that books like these sell ideas -- and that's actually a good thing, as long as the authors practice truth in advertising: Read More ›
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Who Misrepresented Who? A Response to John Farrell

When we find re-usage of parts in a way that cannot be explained by a phylogenetic tree and common descent, this is the sort of data we might expect under intelligent design. Read More ›

Darwin vs. Design: An Engaging Debate Topic

From the very beginning, the Darwin vs Design conferences organized by Discovery’s Center for Science & Culture were always envisioned as educational endeavors. Many people don’t understand what intellligent design is, and they don’t understand what it is that scientists and scholars at Discovery Institute are arguing for in the ongoing debate over Darwinian evolution and ID. These conferences are a chance for us to present some of the work and research we’ve done on these subjects. When some of the science faculty at SMU demanded that the conference planned for their campus be cancelled we decided to issue an invitation to them to come and air their objections to intelligent design in public, and to ask their most challenging Read More ›

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