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Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery; It’s a Path to Wonder

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do. Read More ›
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“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection. Read More ›
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The Great Non-Debate and Scientific Atheism as “20-Year-Old Sushi”

If Richard Dawkins had answers to intelligent design's evidence, he would have presented them, not least on his own home turf. Read More ›
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Could Faith, Science, and Simulation Theory Be Mutually Reinforcing?

MIT-trained Rizwan Virk says something that is surprising: that his approach to cosmology is a branch of intelligent design. Read More ›
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In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Read More ›
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Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›
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Conservation Laws and Life: If It Looks Designed, It Is

In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics. Read More ›
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Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Read More ›
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Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›
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Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Read More ›

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