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Image: Sisyphus forever pushing the rock up the hill, by Titian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Intelligent Design a Science Stopper?

Consider a box with an internal divider such that the box is divided into two separate compartments, A and B. Read More ›
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Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case

The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, "If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?" Read More ›
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Photo: Orion Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI.

How Materialists Rely on Intelligent Design

They will mock, attack, and ignore intelligent design theory. But evolutionists love using it in their own ways. Read More ›
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Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›
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“Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact”

We are not saying DNA is like a message. Rather, DNA is a message. Read More ›
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The “Surprisingly Consistent” Answer to the Question: Are We Alone in the Universe?

The firm belief in extraterrestrial life — a belief nearly universal in the scientific community — is an act of faith. Read More ›
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Foe of Intelligent Design Makes a Great Case for ID Science

Steven Novella is a Yale neurologist who has consistently denied that ID is a valid scientific inference. Read More ›
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A Scientific Method for Design Detection

My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student. Read More ›
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What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense? Read More ›
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Government Funds…Intelligent Design?

“Technosignatures” is just abstruse enough to evade most Congressional waste hunters.  Read More ›

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