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Yawn: Atheist YouTuber “Professor Dave” Rants about Intelligent Design

In the end, Farina’s potshots against intelligent design and Discovery Institute  completely miss their targets. Read More ›
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“Stuck in the Late 19th Century”: Andrew Klavan, Stephen Meyer on Scientific Atheism

Darwin, Marx, and Freud are largely responsible for elaborating the outlook that sought to replace the Western theistic view. Read More ›
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Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›
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From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›
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Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis

"I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science." Read More ›
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Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix

Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning. Read More ›
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Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory

As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory. Read More ›
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New Head of Brazilian Education Agency Supports Free Speech in Origins Debate

Dr. Benedito Neto hosted a delegation of scientists from Discovery Institute in 2017 for the founding of Discovery-Mackenzie, in partnership with Dr. Marcos Eberlin. Read More ›
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#1 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Informed by Discovery Authors, Yale’s David Gelernter Rejects Darwinism

He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science. Read More ›
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Get Involved: Help Harness Science Uprising

You have probably watched friends or family members give themselves up to materialism. It’s heartbreaking, and to see it happen can leave us feeling powerless. Read More ›

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