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01Jan 2024 by Post

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2023: Joe Rogan and Stephen Meyer Talk Science and Faith

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For more than three hours, Rogan asked questions about the scientific argument for the reality of God, as well as Meyer’s reasons for believing the Bible. Source

31Dec 2023 by Post

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Source

10Dec 2023 by Post

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

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Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Source

09Dec 2023 by Post

Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

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Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Source

01Dec 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

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All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Source

22Sep 2023 by Post

Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”

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The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work. Source

18Sep 2023 by Post

Is teaching kids about God child abuse?

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People always tell me not to look at the comment section of a social media post. I didn’t listen. We just promoted the new kid’s curriculum Let’s Get Real: Examining the Evidence for God, based on Turek and Geisler’s best seller: I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. I anticipated backlash. I know the drill. You post something about God and the evidence that points to His existence and suddenly every atheist saddles up behind their keyboard to tell you why you’re wrong. What I didn’t expect was to be accused of child abuse. Is teaching kids about God child-abuse? This isn’t a new accusation against Christians. In Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion, he asserts that religious indoctrination is child abuse. However, Nicholas Humphrey, a neuropsychologist from Cambridge…

18Aug 2023 by Post

What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?

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The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Source

04Aug 2023 by Post

Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

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Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Source

09Jun 2023 by Post

Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

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"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Source

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