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Photo: Aurora as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA/Shane Kimbrough.

Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Read More ›
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René Descartes
Image: René Descartes, after Frans Hals, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How to Overcome Scientism

Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically.  Read More ›

Lawyer, Scientist, or Animal? Choosing Between Evolution and Human Reason

Darwinism undercuts human reason. That's bad news for science. Read More ›

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