Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

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One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Source
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The Scientific Discoveries That Make Materialism an Irrational Belief

Barry Arrington, biology, Charles Darwin, cosmology, Evidence, Evolution, Faith & Science, France, God the Science the Evidence, human consciousness, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Italy, Michel-Yves Bolloré, natural selection, Olivier Bonnassies, Palomar Editions, physics, Podcast, proof, scientific discoveries, Spain, theism, Worldview
For the last 150 years, many have assumed science has ejected God from the picture, a quaint relic of a less enlightened past. Source
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Behe, Meyer, and Lennox: Evidence for Design Is Growing

academia, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fiesole, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, intentional design, Italy, John Lennox, mathematics, Michael Behe, Peter Robinson, physical world, Podcast, science, scientific method, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, universe
Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three leading voices in science on the case for an intelligent designer. Source
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Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

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Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Source
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

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One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Source
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Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, John Lennox: The Evidence for Design Is Growing

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In a conversation in Fiesole, Italy, three leading thinkers explore the growing problems with modern evolutionary theory and the increasing evidence for design. Source
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Darwinian Racism, Past and Present

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John West discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, and Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution. Source
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In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso

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Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Source
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Italian Center on Intelligent Design Holds Launch Event

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The city of Turin was an especially fitting place for the public launch of a group focusing on intelligent design. Source
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A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats

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Small animals amuse and amaze scientists who take a close look at them in action. Sometimes it requires a high-speed camera to analyze the trick. Source
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