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Photo source: Dinesh D'Souza, via YouTube (screenshot).

Meyer, D’Souza: Is Knowledge of a Creator Innate?

A couple of friends made me laugh last week in telling about a Jewish class they took. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Who Speaks for God? Darwinists Do, Apparently

Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellow Stephen Dilley explores this curious phenomenon in his talk at the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Read More ›
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The Science Behind the Declaration of Independence

The scientific consensus of the Founders’ era confirmed the truths of the Declaration. Read More ›
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In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›
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Watch: Catholics in Conversation on Intelligent Design

Fr. Michael is doing what many a member of a faith community probably wishes his own clergyman could do, given the importance of the subject. Read More ›
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Photo credit: "Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula," by ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov.

Historical Reasoning, Modern Science: A Conversation with Winston Ewert

Dr. Ewert and I dive into the rich history of how early Christian thinkers engaged with the scientific consensus of their time. Read More ›
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Is Matter Conserved? Ancient and Modern Views

Christians accepted that the principle, nothing comes from nothing, was true for processes in nature. God, however, was not bound by this limitation. Read More ›
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Photo: "Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›
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Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›
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The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God

The “Laws of Nature” are those truths about reality that all well-formed human beings have access to through observation, reason, and conscience. Read More ›

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