Jonathan Witt

Executive Editor, Discovery Institute Press. Author. Tolkien lover. Christ follower. Shameless generalist.

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

My latest: Of Bee Brains, ChatGPT, and Fists of Ham https://t.co/feINNqp3GG via @discoverycsc @DrJayRichards

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

LEGO just dropped its largest set ever: La Sagrada Familia.

It has 12,060 pieces and costs $800. The set comes 100 years after Antoni Gaudi’s death (June 10, 1926).

The details are insane including spires, carvings and interior with light shining through stain-glass windows.

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

David Klinghoffer: What Explains the Catastrophe of Seattle's Mayor Katie? Could Be Evolution https://t.co/UkTSE8dUkO @DrJayRichards @JackoWilliams64

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

🧵My Latest: I watched an evangelical college die from the inside. Not from press releases. Not from “expert analysis.” From faculty meetings, anxious hallway conversations, and students who had no idea they were studying on borrowed time.

[Jay W. Richards 🇺🇸 @DrJayRichards]

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[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

This morning, my family passed a group of students sitting on the stairs outside the Jefferson Memorial, and I almost tripped over my own jaw when their government school teacher quizzed them, “Were all men created equal?” and they immediately responded in unison, “No!”

He went on to pontificate about how some people owned slaves and only the men could vote, which in his pea-sized brain apparently gave him license to sit those poor kids down outside a site of great beauty to deliver a negative lecture instead of inspiring them to ponder the powerful truths and ideals that Jefferson penned which set America apart as a great nation.

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

Darwin: Reluctant Agnostic or Diplomatic Atheist? Michael Flannery Considers Three Clues
https://t.co/chmPFXb3JO via @discoverycsc @d_klinghoffer

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

Do People With Split Brains Have Back Door Communications? https://t.co/fpi9j1gg9j via @discoverycnai

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

Bad Pro-Evolution Arguments Claim “No Functional Reason” for Genomic Arrangements https://t.co/r1FJP6OO4k via @discoverycsc

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Theistic Evolution Book Cites Debunked Icons of Evolution https://t.co/yJ12n4x660 via @discoverycsc

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Addressing More Debunked Icons of Theistic Evolution https://t.co/w74m79oF77 via @discoverycsc

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Homeschooling is the future

It could save America

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

At First Things, Physicist Stephen Barr Asserts “Gradual” Human Origins. Fossils Suggest Otherwise. https://t.co/TYZQWup6gg via @discoverycsc @firstthingsmag @d_klinghoffer @StephenCMeyer

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

The Cambrian Explosion Stubbornly Remains Explosive: More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils https://t.co/Be3YSAXo6b via @discoverycsc @d_klinghoffer @RLCrowther

[David Klinghoffer @d_klinghoffer]

Debating the Declaration: John West on Science in the American Founding https://t.co/O2nXm1AG3N via @discoverycsc

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

Finally got to see this movie! It's gorgeous, with high production values, and it ably makes the case from two sides - physics and biology - that what we see in the natural world is best explained by a transcendent Intelligence.

I learned some new things watching this movie. I knew the late great astronomer Allan Sandage was Christian, but I didn't know that he, like me, was a non-believer who had been led to God by his scientific work. I also didn't realize the extent to which some scientists objected to Lemaitre's big bang model because it resonated too much with Genesis 1:1. This point is both exciting and depressing. Exciting, because it emphasized even more how scientists in the last century, as modern physics was heating up, understood the theological implications of the big bang. Depressing, because so many Christians still think the big bang is an atheist conspiracy. 😕

I was featured more than I thought in the first part of the movie. Kind of weird seeing myself on a big screen, but I got over that pretty fast. It was fun seeing who else they brought in for this movie, and it was an impressive cast.

It's important that we continue to present our case this way when we can - beautifully, compellingly, with striking visuals and music. That's what makes something memorable - it's the way humans are wired.

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

The Power Line Podcast: John West on the Declaration of Independence at 250, Christian Faith, and Science https://t.co/ThV2cHJBT7 @JGWestDI @DrJayRichards @RLCrowther

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings.

Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments.

The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days.

Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product.

On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years.

When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry."

Turns out neither was he.

[Jonathan Witt @JonathanRWitt]

What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish? https://t.co/Q362xhFSpH via @discoverycsc

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Apparently when you donate blood, it has to be YOUR blood. Geez.