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Post-Agnostic Science:

Robert C. Koons
September 1, 1994
1. Anthropic Coincidences In 1973, astronomer and cosmologist Brandon Carter (Carter 1974) delivered a lecture in which he announced an exciting new discovery: the fundamental constants of the physical world must have been very delicately fine-tuned in order to make life possible. Since that time, … » Go

Teaching intelligent design as religion or science?

William A. Dembski
June 1, 1994
Imagine yourself the head of Christian education for a large local church. Suppose that among its many ministries the church operates a high school. Let us say the high school has been existence for a number of years, and has until now encountered no difficulties with state certification boards. … » Go

Is Intelligent Design a Dumb Idea?

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June 1, 1994
Introduction: How is this becoming a “current problem”? The notion of “intelligent design” for explaining what we see in the world of living things — including ourselves — is becoming a matter of open controversy of late. For example, in policy statements from the … » Go

Thinking About the Theory of Design

Paul Nelson
December 1, 1993
Introduction: Why Return to a Disreputable Business? Present theological discussions . . . ignore natural theology, and for contemporary linguistic philosophers the Argument from Design possesses no validity whatsoever and is logically and morally indefensible, although it may serve to heighten … » Go

Teaching the Controversy

Foundation for Thought and Ethics, David K. DeWolf and Stephen C. Meyer
June 7, 1989

Public schools face a dilemma when they address the subject of biological origins. From the Scopes “Monkey Trial” (1925) to the Supreme Court’s opinion in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), the teaching of biological origins has put the public schools in the awkward role of resolving … » Go

Epigenetics and the Architect

Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 22, 2026

In 1953 Watson and Crick ignited the genetics revolution with their discovery of the double helix. Today a second revolution is underway thanks to the discovery of DNA’s mysterious partner in the elegant waltz of cellular life—the epigenome. The sophistication of that dance is astonishing … » Go

Science After Babel

David Berlinski
June 5, 2023
Polymath and raconteur David Berlinski is at it again, challenging the shibboleths of contemporary science with his inimitable blend of deep learning, close reasoning, and rapier wit. In Science After Babel he reflects on everything from Newton, Einstein, and Gödel to catastrophe … » Go

Human Nature

David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since the Middle Ages; humankind is growing more peaceful and enlightened; man is shortly to be much improved — better genes, better neural circuits, better biochemistry; and we are approaching a technological singularity that well may … » Go

Denying the Signature

Stephen C. Meyer
November 24, 2015
Most readers of Evolution News likely know the central thesis of Stephen Meyer’s bestseller, Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. Meyer argues that the functional biological information necessary to build the Cambrian animals is best … » Go

Dissent of Man

John G. West
August 12, 2013
If someone had predicted a year ago that Oxford University Press would publish a book with the subtitle Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, I might have wondered what alternate universe he was inhabiting. But Oxford did publish it, and the aftershocks … » Go

The Michael Medved Show: Signature in the Cell

Michael Medved and Stephen C. Meyer
June 29, 2009
Dr. Meyer discusses the information revolution and the challenge it presents for Darwinism with Michael Medved, expounding the argument for intelligent design from information. Transcript Speaker 1 (00:06):And now America’s number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the … » Go