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Reception of the Original Design Inference

Reception of the Original Design Inference

Mathematician and philosopher William Dembski discusses the reception of the original edition of his landmark book The Design Inference, which explored how we can detect intelligent design. A new expanded edition of the book has now been released, co-authored with computer scientist Winston Ewert. Find out more at https://www.discovery.org/b/the-desig….

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Hitting the Brakes on ‘Rapid Evolution’

On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson concludes his Why It Matters interview with microbiologist Dr. Scott Minnich. In Part 2, Dr. Minnich critiques Lenski's famous Long Term Evolutionary Experiments. Through experiments of his own, Minnich has shown how the practical results of Lenski's project on E. coli are easily repeatable under different conditions, and how some key changes to E. coli are even reversible, both of which speak more to an organism's pre-existing capabilities than to a Darwinian explanation. This is the conclusion to a two-part interview. Read More ›
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A New Classical Christian College Launches in California

With the rapidly increasing student enrollment in various K-12 classical education avenues, a growing number of families are seeking postsecondary education options that maintain the classical approach. Read More ›
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Removing Monuments Becoming Last Straw for Americans

It's a sign of our times that the most impressive and meaningful monument known as the Reconciliation Monument, located in Arlington Cemetery (in Arlington, Virginia): hallowed and sacred ground in America, has been scheduled to be removed on Dec. 18. Read More ›
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Why Does the Proposal for Chimp–Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?

A few days ago, Templeton Foundation's mailer for its online magazine Nautilus pointed to a five-year-old article by University of Washington psychology prof (emeritus) David P. Barash, advocating the creation of a humanzee: “Doing so would be a terrific idea.” Read More ›
The Explanatory Filter

The Explanatory Filter

Mathematician and philosopher William Dembski discusses his “explanatory filter,” which provides a rigorous method to detect intelligent design in nature and daily life. Find out more in the new expanded edition of Dembski’s book The Design Inference, now co-authored with computer scientist Winston Ewert: https://www.discovery.org/b/the-desig….

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Group of bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Helicobacter pylori or salmonella 3D rendering illustration. Microbiology, medical, bacteriology, biology, science, medicine, infection concepts.
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A Microbiologist’s Journey to Intelligent Design

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China’s dictatorship, America’s democracy

I almost always focus on recent books, but this month I want to mention one from 2014 that’s received new life because of—to quote last month’s University World News headline—“Dismay over university’s sacking of scholar denied a visa.” Rowena Xiaoqing He, author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan), currently lives in Austin and until recently Read More ›