Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding

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Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy. Source
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“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

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Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Source
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Using the Logic of Surprise to Infer Cosmic Design

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On a hike, you stumble upon a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. When you walk in, you notice a steaming cup of tea sitting on the table. Source
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The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

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One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that. Source
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Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

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I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Source
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Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

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A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Source
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

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The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Source
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