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Image: James Madison, by John Vanderlyn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Celebrate America 250 — With the Science of the American Founding

If you are really short on time, all these themes are compressed into in an effective image, above, that you can click on, read, and share through social media. Read More ›
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Photo: Asian elephant, by Yathin S Krishnappa, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›
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Another “Scientific” Attack on Free Will

We don’t even know what consciousness is. If there is no free will, are we even really conscious? Read More ›
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The Story of Everything…or of Nothing?

The movie is respectful in how it addresses questions. It doesn’t preach. But it challenges perspectives at the heart of who we are. Read More ›
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The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Read More ›
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Jonathan Witt: Darwinism and Its “Pernicious Cultural Implications”

What are we to make of rationality and creativity, of our awareness of the moral order? In the Judeo-Christian tradition, these markers are elevated. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Michel Villeneuve, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers: More on Sean Carroll

Describing luxury mechanical watches as “marvels of engineering and design” is not a religiously motivated claim. Read More ›
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Dover Days: A Fatuous Decision Is About to Turn 20 Years Old

Judge Jones looked my way, and his expression seemed full of fellow feeling, as if to say, “Don’t sweat it. I’m all about free speech. I’ve got your back.”  Read More ›
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A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›
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Photo: The perfect solar eclipse of 1919, by ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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