Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

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Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Source
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Words for Wednesday! Disentangling ID from Creationism

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Yesterday on Stephen Meyer’s Facebook page we launched the new “Terminology Tuesday” feature, with a quick read about just what we mean by intelligent design. Source
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

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Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Source
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Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

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The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Source
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The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference

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Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon. Source
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A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

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Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source
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