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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
Image: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›
Aquinas
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.Design.

Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›
bear trap
Image credit: M W via Pixabay.

Jordan Peterson Springs the Trap of Scientism

There’s a gaping God-shaped hole in both Krauss and Peterson’s particular ways of spinning all this. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Dr. Meyer's Facebook page.

Meyer Interview in World Magazine: Big Bang as “the First Effect, the First Event”

It had not occurred to me that anyone would see the beginning of the universe as a challenge to their faith, but evidently some do. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by J. Nathan Matias, via Flickr (cropped).

Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges

The only way to truth in science is to permit and even encourage challenges to orthodoxy. Read More ›
Copernicus
Copernicus
Image: Nicholas Copernicus, via Toruń Regional Museum / Public domain.

Copernican Revolution Promoted Man’s Place in the Cosmos

In Copernicus’ day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected. Read More ›
University of Bologna
atheist
Photo: University of Bologna, the world’s oldest university, by Biopresto [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›
Michael Shermer
Scientific Humanism
Photo: Michael Shermer, by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Why Michael Shermer’s “Case for Scientific Humanism” Fails

Shermer tries to rewrite history by insisting that science is built on atheistic assumptions. Read More ›
Hegel
Image: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, by Jakob Schlesinger, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nancy Pearcey Answers the Charge: “You Guys Lost”

“Without Hegel there would have been no Darwin,” Pearcey explains. Read More ›
transcendent
Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›

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