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An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design

According to Lewis, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things. Read More ›
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Ties that Bind: The Alt-Right’s Connections to Social Darwinist Madison Grant and Eugenics

It’s important to understand what the Alt-Right believes. They are not just an extreme offshoot of either the Right or the Left. Read More ›
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New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›
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Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos? Read More ›
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Another Language Found in Life: Immune Signaling

The authors, scientists at UCLA, compare their finding to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Read More ›
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#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” Read More ›
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For Mankind, the Leap from Copper to Iron Was a Landmark Advance

The importance of metals, particularly iron, and the importance of the discovery of metallurgy can hardly be exaggerated. Read More ›
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How to Restore Science’s Lost Luster

More and more, the scientific establishment looks like a special interest group with biases of their own. Read More ›
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Living Amid a Pandemic: Wisdom from C.S. Lewis

Remember the admonition of C.S. Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.” Read More ›

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