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Why Quantum Theory Does Not Support Materialism
By Bruce L Gordon, Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Physics, Baylor University Materialism (or physicalism or naturalism) is the view that the sum and substance of…
With Materialistic Science, You Can’t Go Wrong – Or Right Either
By Denyse O’Leary I am a blogger. A special-purpose blogger actually, a Toronto-based journalist who covers the intelligent design controversy. In April 2005 I started…
Panning God: Darwinism’s Defective Argument Against Bad Design
By Jonathan Witt The metaphor of cosmos as “watch” (a timepiece) captured the imagination of Enlightenment thinkers, confronted as they were with fresh insights into the…
The Pale Blue Dot Revisited
by Jay W. Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez A recurring theme of the 1994 book Pale Blue Dot, by the late astronomer Carl Sagan, is that…
The Role of Agency in Science
By Angus Menuge 1. Agents Human beings habitually understand themselves as agents. An agent is an individual with reasons for its behavior. Agents have goals…
Designed for Discovery
by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards Read any book on the history of scientific discovery, and you’ll find magnificent tales of human ingenuity, persistence,…
Detecting Design in the Natural Sciences
By William A. Dembski How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose….
What Every High School Student Should Know about Science
By Michael Newton Keas Because science is a core feature of modern society, everyone needs a thorough introduction to it. In particular, every high school…
The Rhetorical Structure of Darwin’s Origin of Species
By John Angus Campbell Darwin faced a steep persuasive challenge in his masterwork the Origin of Species. As his notebooks (1837-1839) amply show, from the…
Science, Eugenics, and Bioethics
By Richard Weikart In the late nineteenth century, a movement emerged among scientists and physicians that advocated the improvement of human heredity. Francis Galton, a…
Limits to Evolvability
By Ray Bohlin The Misuse of Artificial Selection Most people assume that evolution allows almost unlimited biological change. Even so, a few simple observations show…
Is Religion an Emotional Crutch?
By Nancy Pearcey In the fall of 2005 Kansas University announced a new course, subtitled “Intelligent Design [ID], Creationism, and other Religious Mythologies,” taught by…
Intelligent, Optimal, and Divine Design
By Richard Spencer If something has been intelligently designed, people often expect to see structures that are perfectly crafted to perform their individual tasks in…
Derrocando el estereotipo surgido del juicio de los monos
Por Edward Sisson Siempre que se desafía la veracidad de la evolución darvinista, la ciencia establecida y sus aliados sacan a trotar a su caballo…
Que nadie se atreva a decir que es razonable
Por Denyse O’Leary La ciencia busca las mejores explicaciones para los fenómenos naturales. Al menos eso es lo que nos dicen. Pero ¿qué pasa si…
Medios estadounidenses descubren la controversia del Diseño Inteligente y dejan ir la gran noticia
Por Denyse O’Leary Cuando los principales medios norteamericanos conocieron la controversia del Diseño Inteligente (DI), en otoño de 2004, su reacción ilustró parcialmente la razón…