10Feb 2026 by Post

Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

Abby Hafer, aging, anatomy, arteries, bad design, biology, constraints, decay, Duke University, engineered systems, Engineering, European Space Agency, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary mechanism, foresight, Francois Jacob, fungi, genetic flaws, heart, Human Errors, human technology, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, joints, lubrication, Nathan Lents, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, Steven Vogel, suboptimal design, survival, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, The Origin of Species, theistic design, tinkering, unintelligent design
An intelligent designer can employ foresight to envision a solution well beyond anything in existence at the time, and then set about making that a reality. Source
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09Feb 2026 by Post

Teaching Our Kids to Spot Empty Statements 

Apologetics, Christianity, critical thinking, Discernment, Division, Gospel, Hillary Morgan Ferrer, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, MamaBearApologetics.com, messaging, narrative, rhetoric, Unity, Worldview
John and I were at the Iowa State Fair this weekend (in 2019). My husband loves all the fried food. Calories at the fair don’t count, right? Among our scheduled stops, we wanted to see a band that advertised itself as a mix between Stomp and Accapella. Sounds cool right? We sat down with whatever artery-clogging victual we had just purchased and as the band started to sing, John and I realized that they weren’t exactly what we had thought. They weren’t bad necessarily. They just sounded a whole lot like a group that you’d hear brought to a middle school to give some flowery feel-good generic message—which consequently is exactly what they did. The lead singer proudly proclaimed that they had decided to switch their focus from just music to making…
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07Feb 2026 by Post

How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

albumin, blood, capillaries, cell death, Darwinian narrative, death, dying, Engineering, Eric Anderson, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, life, liver, living systems, Medicine, minerals, physics, Podcast, proteins, Steve Laufmann, water, Your Designed Body
Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Source
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06Feb 2026 by Post

A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

atoms, BIO-Complexity, civilization, computers, Darwinists, disorder, earth, encyclopedias, entropy, equations, Evolution, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, iPhones, machines, order, physics, probability, Science and Culture Today, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar energy, sun, tautology, tornado
The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Source
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06Feb 2026 by Post

Are We Tampering with the Doctrine of Hell? with Kirk Cameron

biblical hell, Christian Apologetics, Christian theology, Christianity, doctrine of hell, Dr. Frank Turek, eternal punishment, Hellgate Christian debate, Hellgate documentary, Kirk Cameron, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
As Christians, we all believe that Hell is real. But what is the exact nature of God’s eternal punishment? Is Hell eternal conscious torment, or will it ultimately come to an end? This week, Kirk Cameron joins Frank to unpack the controversy that led him to host, ‘Hellgate: The Christian Debate We’re Afraid to Have‘, a roundtable discussion featuring biblical scholars Paul Copan, Chris Date, Gavin Ortlund, and Dan Paterson, examining what Scripture actually teaches about eternal punishment, conditionalism, and the justice of God. Frank and Kirk will tackle questions like: What caused Kirk to reconsider the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment? How did some prominent Christian leaders react to his comments? What is conditionalism (annihilationism) and how does it compare to the traditional view of Hell? What did…
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06Feb 2026 by Post

Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, Evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels, __featured1
I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Source
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05Feb 2026 by Post

Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion

animals, bioethics, Bloodhound Gang, cats, Children, Conversation, Discovery Channel, embodied beings, friendship, Gombe Chimpanzee War, human beings, human exceptionalism, humans, incorporeal intelligences, J. Budziszewsk, laboratory animals, Laws, locusts, mammals, Pandemic of Lunacy, Parents, primates, rationality, snakes, spouses, transhumanists, University of Texas, wolves, worship
Some of my students argue that humans should be wiped off the face of the earth to make room for the other species. Source
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04Feb 2026 by Post

On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

adenine, biochemists, biology, E. coli, Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness, fossil record, gene, gene transcription, genes, genetics, genotype, homology, information, James Tour, lactose, Michael Behe, natural selection, promoter, random mutations, regulatory control, researchers, Rice University, S. cerevisiae, tryptophan, W303, When Can I Trust What Scientists Say? (series), yeast, YouTube videos
In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source
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04Feb 2026 by Post

What Does the Bible Say About Illegal Immigration? My Friendly Response to a Well-known Pentecostal Pastor

Apologetics, Border Patrol, Christianity, cultural apologetics, Gospel, government, ICE, illegal immigration, Immigrant, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, open borders, Politics, Race, Racism, Undocumented
The topic of immigration is boiling over these days. It’s complex and emotional, especially when it affects our communities and families. Recently, a well-known Puerto Rican Pentecostal pastor named Omar Lugo  presented a Facebook video and a written post on this issue, citing various Bible verses that discuss how we should treat foreigners. His approach seemed to suggest that human laws regarding immigration shouldn’t matter because divine laws are above them (without explaining how they directly contradict God’s law). While I share his concern for showing compassion, I believe his argument stems from biblical silence and fails to demonstrate that current immigration laws violate God’s law. The Argument from Silence in Biblical Interpretation Pastor Omar used passages like Leviticus 19:33-34, Exodus 22:21, Deuteronomy 10:18-19, Zechariah 7:10, Matthew 25:35, Hebrews 13:2,…
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03Feb 2026 by Post

How to Be Human (In an AI World) with Abdu Murray

Abdu Murray, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Fake ID, Identity Ideology, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
We hear that technology will set us free and that identity is whatever we choose. What we’re not being told is how these promises unravel reality itself, leaving us restless and confused in a world where we can no longer tell what is true. Embrace the Truth president Abdu Murray returns to the program to continue the discussion about his brand-new book, ‘Fake ID‘, and share practical tips for how we can navigate today’s two cultural tsanamis of artificial intelligence and identity ideology. Together, Frank and Abdu answer questions like: What does it mean to say that humans are made in the image of God? Why does humanity collapse when objective truth goes away? Why does increased digital connection make us feel more lonely and depressed? What shocking story did…
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