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TagPlato’s Revenge (Discovery Institute Press 2025)

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Geneticist James D. Watson (1928–2025): His Contradictory Legacy

Watson and Crick set the stage for what philosopher Stephen Meyer calls the God Hypothesis and yet Watson was a bigoted atheist and champion of pseudoscientific racism

James Watson’s science legacy is for the ages. It would be fair if his ignoble thinking about faith and race faded into the background after some time.

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At The Federalist: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy

David Weinberg points out that traditional descriptions of the powers of our souls are remarkably like what modern neuroscience is revealing to us in the twenty-first century

The theme that science is confirming the traditional philosophical understanding of life is also the theme of David Klinghoffer’s Plato’s Revenge.

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McDowell: Is It Time Christians Moved Beyond the Evolution Wars?

Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway, Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies

Today, people can be atheists and dismiss Darwin all the same. So Christian evangelists and apologists need to reckon with that.

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