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Erika DeBenedictis
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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ID as an “Argument from Ignorance”? And Other Questions for Stephen Meyer

He also answers another objection, namely that our uniform experience with designing minds is that minds are embodied in material brains. Read More ›
bioengineering
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Concluding Comments: Playing God vs. Respecting Design

It truly matters that we follow the evidence to its logical end and base our research and applications on that end. Read More ›
frog
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Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable

A number of theories as to how life could have originated through entirely unintelligent processes have been proposed, but none are plausible. Read More ›
The Paradigm Project
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New Trailer Out Now — The Paradigm Project

“This is some pretty mind-blowing stuff,” as host Kutter Callaway says. “So why aren’t we hearing this side of the story on our favorite nature show?” Read More ›
Newton by Blake
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Isaac Newton — Proto-Intelligent Design Advocate

Some atheists, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, have miscast Newton as a mechanist and a materialist, in their own image. Read More ›
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The Paradigm Project — Intelligent Design in a New Light

Douglas Axe urges scientists to admit there are things they don’t understand about life's origins, much as there are things in Scripture we can’t grasp. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›
Macaca fascicularis
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Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe — Scientist

In order to think scientifically, you must have an advanced degree in science. Right? Read More ›

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