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False Messiah: An Addendum on Darwin and Theism

The standpoint of poet John Keats is certainly gaining resonance in our doubt-ridden 21st century. I for one welcome its openness to questioning and wonder. Read More ›
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When Charlie Kirk Talked About Intelligent Design

People will be talking about Charlie Kirk’s legacy for a long time. You could start anywhere. Read More ›
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Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise

If the data points to outcomes that natural causes can't explain, then ruling out supernatural causes is not scientific humility — it’s religious dogma. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).

The Birth of Science and of the Cosmos

Do we have to choose between science and God? Absolutely not, says philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›
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Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›
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The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›

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