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Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020
Intelligent Design

Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design: Case of the Coronavirus

Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020
Intelligent Design
Undirected natural selection can’t lift itself by its own bootstraps — accidents can’t happen in nature except in a sea of design. The evolution of the COVID-19 virus is a clear and terrible example of the undeniable teleology in nature. Darwinian random variation and selection, when it happens, is parasitic on biological and natural design. Read More ›
family mother father and children watching projector, TV, movies with popcorn in evening at home
family mother father and children watching projector, TV, movies with popcorn in the evening at home
Sarah Chaffee
April 6, 2020
Education, Intelligent Design

Here’s How to Use Precious Family Time, Wisely

Sarah Chaffee
April 6, 2020
Education, Intelligent Design
Despite their sometimes nonchalant attitudes as they try to act cool, children do care what their parents think. They appreciate it when parents lovingly take time to explain important lessons and to encourage questioning. This social distancing period may be the opposite of what you and your family want, but using the time and opportunities now could bear fruit for years to come. Read More ›
Asian temple dragon
Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Policy

The Dragon’s Deception

Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Policy
U.S. Intelligence reports that China has misrepresented the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Social media was part of the strategy. An investigation by ProPublica and the UN shows that China has used thousands of Twitterbots, as well as hacked accounts, to applaud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the heroes who stopped the coronavirus in China. Read More ›
Washington DC - US Capitol building
Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life

America Needs a New Declaration of Equal Justice Under the Law

Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life
In prior times of war, crisis, suffering, and loss of life from causes outside the U.S., Americans of both parties would pull together and focus on what can be done to quickly help, alleviate, and solve the problem. No longer. The COVID-19 crisis provides us a window into our national social and spiritual health, and what we see from much of America’s Left as expressed in the media and Democrat Party reveals a degree and strain of moral impoverishment we haven’t seen before. The COVID-19 crisis in America will pass as all such virus epidemics do, but an overriding issue and question that will remain for the American future is: Do we have sufficient courage and determination to successfully deal with the internal threats and contradictions that jeopardize the future viability of the United States and its Constitution? Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design

The Myth of “Darwinian Medicine”

Michael Egnor
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
Whether or not Darwinian hypotheses can be teased out of some medical advances, it is simply a fact that doctors and medical researchers pay no attention to Darwinian speculations in their work, and their work has been astonishingly successful. Would heart transplants work better if cardiac surgeons speculated about the Darwinian origin of the four-chamber heart? Read More ›