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You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophe...

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This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interestin...

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Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The...

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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their severa...

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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...

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Isaac NewtonThe Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d...

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Isaac NewtonThe Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...

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I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

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I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

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...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith...

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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

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Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...

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Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conserv...

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Michael ShermerWhy Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the w...

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Michael ShermerWhy Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at t...

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Michael ShermerWhy Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

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Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to th...

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Neil deGrasse TysonDeath by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

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It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th...

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[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in ...

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I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

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Thomas NagelMind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible ...

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Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that ...

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To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

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Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate questi...

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William A. DembskiSigns of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what desig...

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William A. DembskiSigns of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are re...

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William A. DembskiThe Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, ther...

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William A. DembskiThe Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

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William A. DembskiThe Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bu...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, t...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence