Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's short essay “Live Not by Lies” gives food for thought.

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“Live Not by Lies”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

Recently, on reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s short essay “Live Not by Lies,” I was struck by the analogy between the totalitarian system Solzhenitsyn faced, the Lysenkoism of the Darwinist suppression of ID, and the “woke” assault on freedom of speech and freedom of thought spreading like fire though our nation.

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Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix

Read an excerpt from John Lennox’s new book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Lennox writes, “Science and God mix very well. It is science and atheism that do not mix.”

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The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

The Bayesian formulation of biological design arguments is, in my opinion, deserving of greater attention. Bayesian inference is widely used when dealing with design in the physical sciences. Perhaps the time has come for this structure of argument also to be used in design arguments in the life sciences.

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In Cells and Whole Organisms, Repair Mechanisms Imply Foresight, Not Evolution

Cells and organisms come pre-equipped with repair mechanisms. It takes foresight to make complex tools and procedures that can restore the functions of other tools. A blind process like evolution can only see the immediate present; it would be unconcerned about what happens next. Repair implies something worth saving.

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Memory Purge: Eugenicist Margaret Sanger Gets Canceled by Planned Parenthood

File this under empty concessions to cancel culture. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist, her ugly views tied up with the Darwinist thinking prevalent in her own time as it is today. Now the abortion provider’s Manhattan clinic has said it will strip her name from their building and has asked New York City to erase her from street signs.

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