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In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Read More ›
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Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding

Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy. Read More ›
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Why Darwinian Theory Threatens the Declaration of Independence

Dr. John West highlights how modern scientific discoveries in biology, physics, and cosmology are now reinforcing the core claims of the Declaration. Read More ›
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Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›
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Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Read More ›
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The End of Scientific Racism

J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light. Read More ›
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How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›
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John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea

Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution has drained meaning from nature. Read More ›
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West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›
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Watch: For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC

The whole city is a memorial to the ideas that inspired the American Founding. One of those is intelligent design. Read More ›

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