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Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds
Image credit: Martin Johnson Heade, "Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds."

Stephen Meyer: Scientific Arguments for a Theistic Worldview

Are there strong scientific arguments for theism? Is there such a thing as objective morality? Read More ›
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Photo: Harvard Museum of Natural History, by Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism, via Flickr (cropped).

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
materialists
Photo: Lawrence Krauss, in Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes.  Read More ›
Lennox Sorbo
Lennox Sorbo
Photo: Kevin Sorbo and John Lennox, a scene from Against the Tide.

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, via YouTube (screenshot).

A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›
Darwin's finches
Image: Darwin's finches, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Evolution Taught Fairly in Textbooks? A High School Senior Investigates

Daniel Reeves speaks with a recent high school graduate named Natalie about her senior year research project. Read More ›
Sauropods
Photo: Skeletal Reconstruction of <I>Mamenchisaurus youngi</I>, though other sources speak of the very closely related <I>Omeisaurus</I>, in the Dinosaur Museum of Zigong, by Einar Fredriksen, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs — By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?

The origin of the ingeniously intricate long necks in sauropod dinosaurs has been postulated to have arisen more than 35 times independently. Read More ›
Tarzan
Image: Tarzan, by J. Allen St. John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Barbarian Within: Darwinism and the Secular Script for Masculinity

Edgar Rice Burroughs set his Tarzan series (1912) in the African jungle. Because of Tarzan’s wild upbringing, he avoids the debilitating forces of civilization. Read More ›
Newton by Blake
Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›
robot
Photo credit: Yuyeung Lau via Unsplash.

Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?

Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program. Read More ›

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