Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell
Are life and the universe a mindless accident — the blind outworking of laws governing cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution? That’s the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way. But what does the science actually say? Drawing on recent discoveries in astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, and paleontology, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell shows how the latest Read More ›
Say What You Want About Intelligent Design
I mean literally say whatever you want. There’s a strange ethical tenet in the media that holds that when it comes to ID, Read More ›
Essential Readings
10 Essential Books (Science) Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent DesignStephen C. Meyer Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent DesignStephen C. Meyer Darwin’s Black BoxMichael Behe The Edge of EvolutionMichael Behe The Design InferenceWilliam Dembski The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent DesignWilliam Dembski Icons of EvolutionJonathan Read More ›
UC Irvine students decry evolution-only science, sponsor intelligent design talk
This article, published by The College Fix, mentions Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute: The Center for Science and Culture-Discovery Institute scholar Casey Luskin told the 60 or so students and professors in the audience that the vast complexities of life back intelligent design theories, and likened believing in evolution to believing a computer or car formed itself over billions of years. The rest of Read More ›
Intelligent Design: Atheists to the Rescue
This article, published by First Things, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellows: Books by scientists—Michael Denton, Michael Behe, William Dembski, Stephen Meyer and others—pointed out various deficiencies in the theory of evolution: millions of gaps in the asserted “tree of evolution,” the impossibility of producing certain types of “irreducible complexity” by chance interactions, the failure of Read More ›
A Scientific Analysis of Karl Giberson and Francis Collins’ The Language of Science and Faith
Part I: Francis Collins’ Junk DNA Arguments Pushed Into Increasingly Small Gaps in Scientific Knowledge Recently I wrote an article explaining that both atheistic and theistic evolutionists have relied heavily on “junk DNA” — specifically pseudogenes — to argue against intelligent design (ID). In his 2006 book The Language of God, leading theistic evolutionist Francis Collins made such an argument, Read More ›
Some Scientific Views Are More Equal Than Others in America
Opinion across a startlingly broad political range has been solidifying lately in favor of discrimination — not discrimination on racial or sexual grounds, but against some controversial ideas and those who hold them. The ideas have to do with evolution. Is this a welcome development? A spate of lawsuits and complaints poses the question of whether, in scientific fields, a Read More ›
Intelligent Design Author Receives World Magazine’s Man of the Year Honor
Seattle — World Magazine has named Stephen C. Meyer “Daniel of the Year,” their version of man of the year, for his groundbreaking work in explaining the evidence for intelligent design in his authoritative new book, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne). Meyer’s book has already made year-end lists with Amazon.com naming it one of Read More ›
Pro-Darwin consensus doesn’t rule out intelligent design
(CNN) — While we officially celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” on November 24, celebrations of Darwin’s legacy have actually been building in intensity for several years. Darwin is not just an important 19th century scientific thinker. Increasingly, he is a cultural icon. Darwin is the subject of adulation that teeters on Read More ›