The right to ridicule: what do readers think?
The death of freedom of inquiry in British publicly funded schools
A voice for free speech, from the other side
Professor Larry Moran supports the use of ID-compatible science textbooks in Texas classrooms
An open letter to BSU President Jo Ann Gora
Larry Moran defends Paul Nelson!
The Big Easy Bans Intelligent Design, but the Big Story is Louisiana’s Good Science Grades
How FIRE can help in the fight for academic freedom on campus
Professor Jerry Coyne on why Intelligent Design should be taught in public schools
FFRF gets constitutional freedoms and the Founding Fathers wrong ... again
Freedom From Religion Foundation takes silliness to a whole new level
The Freedom From Religion Foundation: Getting the Founding Fathers wrong ✔
No Googling, please. Who wrote this?
We hold these truths to be self-evident...
The immateriality of animal consciousness: why I’m agnostic
Guide dogs don't know that their owners are blind
The amazing feats of 007: something to crow about?
Are plants intelligent, and what can we learn from them?
The Myth of the Continuum of Creatures: A Reply to John Jeremiah Sullivan (Part One)✔
The Myth of the Continuum of Creatures: A Reply to John Jeremiah Sullivan (Part Two)✔
The Myth of the Continuum of Creatures: A Reply to John Jeremiah Sullivan (Part 3(a))✔
The Myth of the Continuum of Creatures: A Reply to John Jeremiah Sullivan (Part 3(b))✔
Do apes plan for the future? Why I'm skeptical
Are crows capable of reasoning about hidden causal agents? Five reasons for skepticism
But they don't feel anything, Professor Coyne
Building a bridge between Scholastic philosophy and Intelligent Design✔
St. Thomas Aquinas and his Fifteen Smoking Guns (A five-part reply to Professor Tkacz)✔
Why no 13-year-old boy talks like Eugene Goostman
Zombies, duplicates, human beasts and consciousness✔
Could the Internet ever be conscious? Definitely not before 2115, even if you're a materialist.✔
Minds, brains, computers and skunk butts✔
Atheism and the Church of Wonderful Nothingness
The Broken Gift: Daniel Friedmann's attempt to marry science and Genesis
Credit where credit's due: P. Z. Myers vs. Daniel Friedmann on Genesis
Darwin's Dilemma Remains Unresolved: What Lee's Paper Didn't Discuss
What Elizabeth Liddle doesn't understand about the Cambrian explosion
What kind of evolution does the Pope believe in?
Scientific American journalist: Everyone has the right to challenge a scientific consensus
Physicist Paul Davies’ killer argument against the multiverse
An excellent new paper by Robin Collins on fine-tuning
New cosmology paper by skeptical scientists lends support to the fine-tuning argument
Night Vision: A new version of the fine-tuning argument
Is this the Dumbest Ever “Refutation” of the Fine-Tuning Argument?
Why the mathematical beauty we find in the cosmos is an objective "fact" which points to a Designer
What assumptions does the fine-tuning argument make about the Designer?
Why a multiverse would still need to be fine-tuned, in order to make baby universes
So you think the multiverse refutes cosmological fine-tuning? Consider Arthur Rubinstein.
The myth about the Dover trial that Miller continues to propagate
Were woolly mammoths designed?
Some testable predictions entailed by Dr. Kozulic's model of Intelligent Design
The Giraffe: A Model of Intelligent Design
Evaluating the Pope’s encyclical, Part One: Each living creature is designed by God
Evaluating the Pope’s encyclical, Part Two: Do we have the right to eradicate species?
Evaluating the Pope’s encyclical, Part Three: Four internal contradictions in the Pope’s thinking
Straight talk about global warming: an open letter to the Catholic clergy✔
Faith vs. Fact: Jerry Coyne's flawed epistemology✔
Good and bad skepticism: Carl Sagan on extraordinary claims
Why science cannot be the only way of knowing: A reply to Jason Rosenhouse✔
Refuting Coyne's myth: Science progresses but theology doesn't
Darwinians concoct a whale of a tale about the evolution of the ear
Could the eye have evolved by natural selection in a geological blink?✔
Mark Frank poses an interesting thought experiment on free will
Free Will: Why reports of its death are greatly exaggerated
Determinism: an idea that just won't fly
Professors Coyne and Miller clash on free will
Battle of the two Elizabeths: are free will and physical determinism compatible?
How is libertarian free will possible?
On not using the wrong metaphor: Catholic writer Mark Shea attempts to channel Pope Francis
God and the Cosmos: Finding the Right Metaphor
Karl Giberson reviews atheist John Loftus' new book
Faraday: man of faith, man of science
Darwin, Kingsley, evolution and racism
All at sea about science and theology: Jerry Coyne cites Andrew Dickson White on Galileo
You can't have them, atheists! (Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and Jean-Paul Sartre all believed in some sort of God.)
So, why are the human and chimpanzee/bonobo genomes so similar? A reply to Professor Larry Moran
In a pickle about Adam and Eve
Who was Adam and when did he live? Twelve theses and a caveat✔
New research points to a 40 million-year-old split between the ancestors of humans and orangutans
Do you have to believe in Adam and Eve?
Adam, Eve and the Concept of Humanity: A Response to Professor Kemp (Part 1)✔
So you don’t believe in Adam and Eve? Ask an atheist for advice!
I'd like a straight yes or a straight no, Professor Moran
Bad math: Why Larry Moran's "I'm not a Darwinian" isn't a valid reply to Meyer's argument
This is what a reply to an Intelligent Design argument looks like
What Elizabeth Liddle doesn't understand about the Cambrian explosion
A succinct case for Intelligent Design
Larry Moran demolishes an icon of evolution
On the poverty of scientific naturalism as an explanation: A reply to my critics
On the impossibility of replicating the cell: A problem for naturalism
Barriers to macroevolution: what the proteins say✔
Why Keith S's bomb is a damp squib
Why Keith Blanchard really doesn't understand evolution
RIKEN's 10-minute antidote to atheism: see for yourself
It's official: there are no ring species
Intelligent Design as a form of special agent intention
Professor Larry Moran poses five questions for the ID movement
Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again: why is this a bad argument for design?
The ferns that evolution forgot: virtually unchanged after 180 million years!
Does Professor Larry Moran (or anyone else) understand macroevolution?
A Darwinist responds to KF's challenge
Haldane's dilemma – what does science really say?
A hypothetical question for neo-Darwinists, on the age of the earth
Is the genetic code a real code?
Rewriting history: Can a Darwinist believe in the scala naturae? (Darwin did.)
Is Darwinism a better explanation of life than Intelligent Design?✔
Could the eye have evolved by natural selection in a geological blink?✔
Macroevolution, microevolution and chemistry: the devil is in the details✔
Zack Kopplin, can you match my poker hand?
The Evolution of Evolution: Are Living Things Intelligently Designed to Evolve?
Game on! A bioinformatician confronts Intelligent Design.
At last, a Darwinist mathematician tells the truth about evolution✔
The four tiers of Intelligent Design – an ecumenical proposal✔
A short quiz on Intelligent Design for both advocates and opponents of ID
Three puzzles that are real – A response to a skeptic
The Giraffe: A Model of Intelligent Design
The video that proves Intelligent Design
Which one is different: gravity, continental drift or evolution?
The 10^(-120) challenge, or: The fairies at the bottom of the garden
How to take down NDE (Neo-Darwinian Evolution)
Living things, Machines and Intelligent Design (Part Two of a Response to the Smithy)
Programs, cells and letting God be God (A concluding reply to the Smithy)
Will this do, Professor Moran?
Does Professor Larry Moran (or anyone else) understand macroevolution?
Macroevolution, microevolution and chemistry: the devil is in the details
Professor James Tour accepts Nick Matzke's offer to explain macroevolution
Can intelligence be operationalized?✔
Scientific evidence that consciousness may not require a functioning brain
Why a simulated brain is not conscious
Neuroscientist says human head transplants are now possible
Do split-brain cases disprove the existence of an immaterial soul? (Part One)✔
Do split-brain cases disprove the existence of an immaterial soul? (Part Two)✔
Is meaning located in the brain?
Twenty-one more famous Nobel Prize winners who rejected Darwinism as an account of consciousness
Why you can't be a Darwinist and a "human exceptionalist"
Why I think the interaction problem is real✔
Minds, brains, computers and skunk butts✔
Naturalist science: no threat to faith in God?✔
"Science is done by ignoring God" – Professor Coyne's newfangled naturalism
Detecting the supernatural: Why science doesn't presuppose methodological naturalism, after all
Methodological naturalism: Science enabler or science stopper? A response to Dr. Elizabeth Liddle.
A very revealing post on naturalism, or: Good and bad extrapolations in science
Is "holding a belief" unscientific?
I get mail: Cavin and Colombetti redux
Is Larry Moran a conspiracy theorist?
No evidence for God's existence, you say? A response to Larry Moran✔
Cavin and Colombetti, miracle-debunkers, or: Can a Transcendent Designer manipulate the cosmos?
Jerry Coyne and Stephen Fry's fishy tale about St. Thomas Aquinas
Whose side are you on, Professor Coyne? What Anatole France really said about miracles
Dr. Martin Luther King on creation, evolution and Intelligent Design
George Orwell on "What is Science?"
Is this a photo? Is this a slur? Is this an argument?
Media conspiracy: now it's official
Louise Antony's three fallacies about God and goodness
Why you can't have have morality – or marriage – without natural law
A surprising admission on altruism by Professor Jerry Coyne
What Jerry Coyne doesn't get about goodness
Evolutionary biology rewrites the American Declaration of Independence
Jerry Coyne's ethical theory unravels
God: Lawgiver or Hypocrite? Loftus attacks divine command theories of ethics
Can a Darwinist consistently condemn a con man who couldn't have done otherwise?
For the record – a comment on Dan Savage’s latest talk
Machine 1 and Machine 2: A Challenge to the Ethics of the New Atheists
Why morality cannot be 100% natural: A Response to Professor Coyne✔
Death of a grande dame: can we build morality on the foundation of natural goodness?
Thomas Aquinas, patron saint of evolutionary psychology? I think not!
Will the real Neutral Theory please stand up?✔
Branko Kozulic responds to Professor Moran
Can the neutral theory of evolution explain what makes us human?
Fixation: the neutral theory's Achilles' heel?
What really scares the new atheists
Why atheists can't show that Ken Ham is wrong
Phil Zuckerman on growing up godless
"No war in the name of atheism": Spot the fallacy
Is something rotten in the state of Denmark?
The New Atheists: A House Divided
Religion as an obstacle to vaccination: New Atheists continue to propagate a myth
Sweden's Big Government 'Utopia': Not so tolerant after all
Can we trust opinion polls on evolution?
Atheism and religious belief in America: interesting trends
Experts pan quantum mechanical replication of Miller-Urey experiment
Do viruses help explain the origin of life?
The dirty dozen: Twelve fallacies evolutionists make when arguing about the origin of life✔
What About the Origins of Life Itself?
RNA, the origin of life and the gullibility of the science media
PZ Myers: "Abiogenesis is not evolution" is a cop-out
It's time for scientists to come clean with the public about evolution and the origin of life✔
New study: Oxygenic photosynthesis goes back three billion years
It came from outer space: Have British scientists found proof of alien life?
How evolutionists explained the origin of life, 101 years ago
The Big Picture: 56 minutes that may change your life
To dream the impossible dream: the quest for the 50-bit life form
Physicist Paul Davies’ killer argument against the multiverse
Vilenkin’s verdict: “All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning.”
Bad science by Dr. Victor Stenger, arguing in the cause of atheism✔
Was Paley a classical theist, and does his design argument lead us to a false God?
Paley's argument from design: Did Hume refute it, and is it an argument from analogy?
On not putting all your theological eggs into one basket✔
An Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God?
Jerry Coyne's critique of the cosmological argument ... and the reply he wouldn't publish
Does scientific knowledge presuppose God? A reply to Carroll, Coyne, Dawkins and Loftus✔
Silly arguments against God, by very clever writers
Is the notion of God logically contradictory?✔
Why the moon isn't made of green cheese (Part One of a reply to Professor Keith Parsons)
Why this universe? Good question. (Part Two of a reply to Professor Keith Parsons)
Professor Raymond Tallis on good and bad arguments for atheism
Do we need a context to identify a message as the product of an intelligent being?
Hyper-skepticism and "My way or the highway": Feser's extraordinary post
Why Greta Christina’s critique of God-guided evolution misses the mark
On the nature and detection of intelligence: A reply to RDFish
On not doing one’s homework: A reply to Professor Edward Feser
Is Intelligent Design bad theology? A reply to David Bentley Hart✔
Is the Intelligent Designer an interventionist? A reply to Felsenstein and Liddle
Did John Maynard Keynes spot the flaw in Intelligent Design?
Four Metaphors for the Cosmos: A Story about a Watch, a Lute, a Recipe and a Symphony✔
Intelligent Design and mechanism: laying a myth to rest
Building a bridge between Scholastic philosophy and Intelligent Design✔
It's all about information, Professor
Of Pegasus and Pangloss: Two Recurring Fallacies of Skeptics✔
A better kind of beauty, or: Why some people mistakenly reject Intelligent Design as unaesthetic
Do Intelligent Design proponents worship two Gods?
Fuller vs. Ruse: Some thoughts on the controversy
Our own Vince Torley on podcast! (Casey Luskin interviews Vincent Torley for "ID the Future")
Memo to Myers and Marcotte: Embryologists agree that an individual human life begins at conception
P. Z. Myers channels Judith Jarvis Thomson on abortion; Dawkins disagrees
P. Z. Myers rebukes Richard Dawkins for his tweet on Down syndrome
Science illiteracy on the liberal left: PZ Myers and Amanda Marcotte can't face the facts of life
New way of producing pluripotent stem cells stuns biologists
Libby Anne (part 3): A reply to her article, "How I lost faith in the pro-life movement"✔
An anti-ID biology professor who doesn't even know the facts of life, let alone evolution
Embryo and Einstein – Why They're Equal✔
Newborn babies: not persons, and not fully human – P. Z. Myers
Is Larry Moran a conspiracy theorist?
No evidence for God's existence, you say? A response to Larry Moran✔
In defense of Eric Metaxas: Is God a scientific hypothesis?✔
Selective hyperskepticism: A response to Professor Moran
Is God a good theory? A response to Sean Carroll (Part One)✔
Is God a good theory? A response to Sean Carroll (Part Two)✔
Is God a good theory? A response to Sean Carroll (Part Three)✔
Does scientific knowledge presuppose God? A reply to Carroll, Coyne, Dawkins and Loftus✔
No evidence, you say? A reply to Eric MacDonald.
Two pretty good arguments for atheism (courtesy of Dave Mullenix)✔
My faith is falsifiable, Professor Coyne. Is yours?
Six bombshells relating to H. L. Mencken and the Scopes trial✔
Mencken's Mendacity at the Scopes Trial✔
H. L. Mencken: The nail in the coffin
Gay marriage and the loss of civility
Why you can't have have morality – or marriage – without natural law
Taking Manhattan out of the Apple?
Keith S in a muddle over meaning, macroevolution and specified complexity✔
Can we all agree on specified complexity?
Order vs. Complexity: A follow-up post
Order is not the same thing as complexity: A response to Harry McCall
Of little green men and CSI-lite✔
Do Christians worship many Gods?✔
The Broken Gift: Daniel Friedmann's attempt to marry science and Genesis
Now Jerry Coyne doubts the historical existence of Jesus Christ
On worshiping the right God: Jerry Coyne asks a sensible question
On not putting all your theological eggs into one basket✔
An Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God?✔
You lose, Reverend: a minister blunders while attacking the inerrancy of his own holy book
No good theology, you say? Oh yes, there is!
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