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Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›
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Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict

I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Read More ›
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Meyer: Can There Be a Theory of Everything?

Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses two of the crucial arguments of his latest book. Read More ›
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Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist

The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life. Read More ›
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David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself

If scientists thought that life's origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
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Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›
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How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance

There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Dr. Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
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Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence

String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.” Read More ›

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