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May 27, 2012
Origins: Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Illustration by Rob Day

Cover Story
The Search for the Historical Adam
The evolution debate is shifting from whether we came from animals to whether we could have come from one man & one woman.


Where We Stand
No Adam, No Eve, No Gospel
The historical Adam debate won't be resolved tomorrow, so stay engaged.

Inside CT
Adam, Where Are You?
It's time for a difficult, grace-filled family meeting.

Adamant on Adam
Resignation of prominent scholar Bruce Waltke underscores tension over evolution.

Augustine's Origin of Species
How the great theologian might weigh in on the Darwin debate.

THE VILLAGE GREEN
How Can the Intelligent Design Movement Gain Academic Credibility?
Origins and the Scientific Community
Intelligent Design: Redefine the Question
Intelligent Design: Accept a Limited Role

Science in Wonderland
Getting some perspective (250 million years' worth) on the evolution controversy.

God by the Numbers
Coincidence and random mutation are not the most likely explanations for some things.

Your Darwin Is Too Large
Evolution's significance for theology has been greatly exaggerated.

The Genesis of Our Woes
Prophecy from the first book of the Bible

 
Intelligent Design Movement | Theology and Human Origins | Interviews | More news | More opinion | Book Reviews | Films

Intelligent Design Movement

The Village Green
Origins and the Scientific Community
Karl Giberson, Stephen C. Meyer, and Marcus Ross chart ways intelligent design can gain academic credibility.


The Village Green
Intelligent Design: Redefine the Question
Karl Giberson, Stephen C. Meyer, and Marcus Ross chart ways intelligent design can gain academic currency.


The Village Green
Intelligent Design: Accept a Limited Role
Karl Giberson, Stephen C. Meyer, and Marcus Ross chart ways intelligent design can gain academic currency.


ID Tagged
Faculty member at Iowa State University denied tenure for supporting intelligent design.


The Other ID Opponents
Traditional creationists see Intelligent Design as an attack on the Bible.


Weblog: Pennsylvania Students 'Taught' Intelligent Design
Plus: More on the New Jersey Copt community, Rolling Stone rejects Zondervan's Bible ad, Iraqi Christians prepare to vote amidst persecution, Bush's inauguration, and more articles from online sources around the world.


Intelligent Design Is Too Religious for Schools, Judge Rules
"Abundantly clear" that it's updated creationism, he says.


Design Film Sparks Angst
Under fire, Smithsonian disavows presentation on Intelligent Design.


Designed Dispute
Curriculum critical of evolution nears approval in Kansas.


Unintelligent Debate
It's time to cool the rhetoric in the Intelligent Design dispute.


Evolving standards: Intelligent Design advocates ask Ohio to broaden origins discussion in public schools
Opponents say the movement is trying to do an end run around science


Intelligent Design: Design Interference
William Dembski fired from Baylor's Intelligent Design center.


We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Why secular scientists and media can't admit that Darwinism might be wrong.


Intelligent Design: Searching for a Blueprint
Discovery Institute reshapes the orgins debate.


Meeting Darwin's Wager (Part I)
How biochemist Michael Behe uses a mousetrap to challenge evolutionary theory.


Evolution: Debunking Darwin?
Intelligent-design' movement gathers strength.



Theology and Human Origins

Where We Stand
No Adam, No Eve, No Gospel
The historical Adam debate won't be resolved tomorrow, so stay engaged.


Cover Story
The Search for the Historical Adam
The center of the evolution debate has shifted from asking whether we came from earlier animals to whether we could have come from one man and one woman.


Inside CT
Adam, Where Are You?
It's time for a difficult, grace-filled family meeting.


Speaking Out
Sin in the Double Helix
Reports linking moral behavior to genetic traits actually prove Scripture's claims, not undermine them.


Christ of the Klingons
A physicist and a philosopher envision God's design in the beautiful equations of string theory.


Adamant on Adam
Resignation of prominent scholar Bruce Waltke underscores tension over evolution.


OT Scholar Bruce Waltke Resigns Following Evolution Comments
Denying data in favor of evolution "will make us a cult," said Reformed Theological Seminary luminary.


Darwin Divides
Christian college professors split on Texas science standards.


Sam Brownback on Evolution
Faith and science are compatible, he says.


FOOLISH THINGS
Living with the Darwin Fish
Why the discovery of yet another 'missing link' doesn't destroy my faith.


Science in Wonderland
Getting some perspective (250 million years' worth) on the evolution controversy.


God by the Numbers
Coincidence and random mutation are not the most likely explanations for some things.


Your Darwin Is Too Large
Evolution's significance for theology has been greatly exaggerated.



Interviews

Creation or Evolution? Yes!
Francis Collins issues a call to stand on the middle ground.


The Dick Staub Interview: William Dembski's Revolution
The author of Intelligent Design set out to answer the toughest questions about the movement he helped promote.


The Dick Staub Interview: John Polkinghorne
The 2002 Templeton Prize winner sees the Bible as the laboratory notebook of the Holy Spirit.


Inherit the Monkey Trial
Scopes-trial historian Ed Larson explains why Christians should be taught evolution.



More news

Creation Museum Founder Disinvited from Homeschooling Conferences
Conference organizer said that Ken Ham made 'unnecessary, ungodly, and mean-spirited' comments about Biologos's Peter Enns.


Boycotting Bloggingheads
Reaction to an Intelligent Design debate shows limit to public discussion.


Fossil Ida Touted as Evolution's 'Missing Link'
Some paleontologists are dismissing the fossil's close connection to humans.


'A Nuclear Bomb' For Evolution?
Critics of Darwinism say skull's discovery isn't all it's cracked up to be


Creationism: Young-Earth Theory Gains Advocates



More opinion

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
The Evolution of Darwin
The scientist's problem with God did not spring from his theory.


Verdict that Demands Evidence
It is Darwinists, not Christians, who are stonewalling the facts.


Were the Darwinists Wrong?
National Geographic stacks the deck.



Book Reviews

Storming Young-Earth Creationism
But is Genesis 1 the only text at issue?


Same Song, Second Verse
Rana's anti-evolution arguments are well worn, but his portrait of cells' inner workings conveys the beauty of creation.


Review
At Origins' Margins
Michael Behe wonders how much Darwinism can really explain.


Deconstructing Dawkins
Alister McGrath's challenge of famous atheist is bracing—but does not go far enough.


BOOKMARK
An End to the Creation/Evolution Wars?
Hugh Ross incorporates common sense into the debate in Creation as Science.


The Art of Debating Darwin
How to intelligently design a winning case for God's role in creation.



Films

The Tree of Life
Malick's magnum opus about the beginning and end of the universe, and a Texas childhood in between.


A Sensory Revelation
Terrence Malick wants his films to capture the magic, wonder, and mystery of the universe.


Dawkins Crashes 'Expelled' Party
Noted Darwinist shows up at screening of Intelligent Design documentary.


Hubble 3D
This IMAX documentary about the 2009 maintenance of the Hubble telescope focuses inspires awe with the scenes depicting our universe in glorious detail.


Creation
This biopic of Charles Darwin gives a nice portrait of his personal life, but doesn’t adequately explore the origin of his ideas—and pits science and religion against one another.


Intelligently Designed Films
The youthful ID movement flexes its muscles in two documentaries


 
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