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Ben Shapiro Rethinks Life’s Origins — Applauds Meyer’s Signature in the Cell

Shapiro accepts the idea of evolution, but he also appreciates that intelligent design is ultimately a way of understanding evolution, the mechanism that drives it. Read More ›
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Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by J. Nathan Matias, via Flickr (cropped).

Darwinists Devolve: Review by Swamidass, Lenski, and Lents Borders on Fraud

I found their review utterly convincing — although probably not in the way the authors might hope. Read More ›
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Happy New Year! #1 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer: Looking Forward to Highlights of 2019, a Big Year for ID

Even Richard Dawkins can’t quite shake the idea that a sublime world like ours doesn’t come about by chance, but by “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Stocking Stuffers: Smart Squirrels, DNA Origami, and More

Here’s a collection of short news items of interest from the animal and human worlds. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›
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Can You Say That in Nature? Dobzhansky’s Evolution Cliché Is Becoming Passé

“Nothing in biology makes sense except…” Go ahead; complete that sentence yourself, with a yawn.  Read More ›
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On Science, Morality, and Wonder, an Atheist Rebukes Other Atheists

An image offered by Einstein, of the sublimely mysterious library, is sensitive and beautiful. Read More ›
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Listen: Berlinski on the Limits of Rational Discourse

I asked David Berlinski and Michael Denton what they thought was the nub of intellectual difference between a thoughtful Darwkin skeptic and a thoughtful Darwin loyalist. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and Common Descent

A reader asks, “I was just wondering why some fellows at Discovery believe in ID but still hold to common descent.“ Read More ›

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