As I return to Discovery Institute, I remain as optimistic about ID’s future as I was when I wrote my farewell post in December 2015: “my personal support for ID and confidence in its future have never been stronger … the fundamentals of ID are sound.”

The book is not just a source of comfort or inspiration when the country, and the world, needs it most. In the context of our culture, which invokes “science” to defend an increasingly dark and anti-human vision, it’s also a battle cry.

Regarding the fine-tuning argument Hitchens concedes, “I think every one of us [meaning, champions of atheism] picks the ‘fine-tuning’ one as the most intriguing” of the arguments for intelligent design.

Namacalathus remains what it was before — a problematic organism of uncertain affinity. And whatever Namacalathus ultimately turns out to be, the Cambrian Explosion also remains what it always was — fatal conflicting evidence against any theory of unguided evolution.

Alfred Russel Wallace is credited as the co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. But unlike Darwin, Wallace believed that much of nature was the product of purposeful design. Listen to Wallace biographer and historian Michael Flannery discuss the intriguing life and legacy of scientist Alfred Russel Wallace with John West of Discovery Institute in this event taped on Wallace’s birthday, Jan. 8.