Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

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Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Source
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 2, “Judge Jones Is a Brilliant, Neutral Legal Scholar”

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A full 90.9 percent of a key section was copied, either verbatim or nearly verbatim, from a brief submitted by the plaintiffs’ attorney. Source
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 4, “The Dover Ruling Refuted Intelligent Design”

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Expert witnesses like biochemist Michael Behe and microbiologist Scott Minnich testified about how irreducible complexity makes a positive case for design. Source
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No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

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One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Source
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Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

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Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Source
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“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

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William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Source
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

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The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Source
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Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

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Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Source
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Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

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As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Source
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Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

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To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Source
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