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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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Remembering Phil Johnson: Visiting San Fran Will Never Be the Same

It pleased me to find out that his reading of my book was one of the major influences that motivated him to take up the fight. Read More ›
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Watch: Videos Now Available from the Recent ID Conference In Austria

Several prominent members of the ID movement presented talks at the conference, including Stephen Meyer, Ann Gauger, Michael Denton, and Brian Miller. Read More ›
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Photo: An oak tree, by Abrget47j [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, by Daniel Reeves.

ID Meeting in Israel — Next Year in Jerusalem?

This was a remarkably cross-disciplinary dialogue among physicists, chemists, biologists, neuroscientists, as well as philosophers and historians of science. Read More ›
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Biology Textbooks and the “God-Talk” Problem

A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology. Read More ›
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Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature

Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t. Read More ›
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Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?

Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible. Read More ›
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Microbiologist Dr. Siegfried Scherer speaking at the recent meeting of the Zentrum für BioKomplexität & NaturTeleologie.

“Teleology in Nature” Gains a Beachhead in Germany

As with Discovery Institute, the Zentrum plans to pursue its work not from a faith perspective but from a scientific one. Read More ›

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