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Our Privileged Planet

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December 16, 2003
Original Article If there’s anything an election year teaches us, it is that even the truth, in the wrong hands, can be spun into almost anything. This isn’t much of a surprise for politicians. But scientists? The legendary astronomer Carl Sagan once claimed, “Our posturings, our … » Go

Plato’s Revenge

David Klinghoffer
April 28, 2025

First there was the genetic revolution — the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, we are overdue for another and more profound revolution. Recent findings reveal that genetic and even … » Go

Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

John G. West
February 3, 2025

What if American culture isn’t collapsing because of crusading secularists? What if it’s failing because leading Christians identify more with secular elites than with their fellow believers? Those are the provocative questions posed by Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, which exposes … » Go

International Seminar on Intelligent Design

The Center for Science and Culture
July 10, 2025
Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and … » Go

C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

The Center for Science and Culture
June 22, 2026
The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of … » Go

Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

The Center for Science and Culture
June 22, 2026
The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare participants to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, … » Go

God as a Public Truth

The Center for Science and Culture
August 10, 2023
Jay Richards, Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation will be interviewing Stephen C. Meyer, Director of the CSC and author of The Return of the God Hypothesis about the idea that God might belong (as the founding fathers thought) … » Go

God’s Grandeur

Ann Gauger, Michael J. Behe, Michael Egnor, Jay W. Richards, Fr. Michael Chaberek, J. Budziszewski and Bruce Chapman
April 18, 2023
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. Pope Benedict XVI The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, … » Go

The Imago Dei Conference

The Center for Science and Culture
March 18, 2023
Casey Luskin, Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture, and Jay Richards, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, will both be presenting at an upcoming conference on the relationship between the scientific understanding of human … » Go

Science Uprising 10: Artificial Intelligence

John Lennox and Robert J. Marks II
September 21, 2022

Are you going to be replaced by a machine? Could a robot really be curious? Or experience love? Could a computer plot evil? Some really smart people think machines will achieve not just human but super human consciousness. Oxford professor of mathematics John Lennox and Baylor University … » Go