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SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Next-Door Neighbors of Intelligent Design

What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND. Read More ›
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ID-Based Engineering Dethrones Darwinism

For a layman’s report, see this overview by Dr. Casey Luskin and Dr. Brian Miller. Read More ›
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“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection. Read More ›
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The Great Non-Debate and Scientific Atheism as “20-Year-Old Sushi”

If Richard Dawkins had answers to intelligent design's evidence, he would have presented them, not least on his own home turf. Read More ›
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How a Self-Confessed “Miniature Richard Dawkins” Found His Way to Intelligent Design

Whether learning from a professor or chatting with a fellow student over coffee, Martin never ran into anyone to challenge his naturalistic worldview. Read More ›
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Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?

On March 26–28, 1992, scientists and philosophers assembled at Southern Methodist University for an event whose title posed a provocative question. Read More ›
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In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Read More ›
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Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Richard

If I were an atheist, I would feel pretty discouraged about now by the New Atheist icon. Read More ›
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Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›
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Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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