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2017

Jack Szostak
Signature in the Cell
Photo: Jack Szostak, by Markus Pössel (Mapos) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Prominent Retraction Vindicates Stephen Meyer and Signature in the Cell

Criticism suggested that Nobel laureate Jack Szostak and others were fast closing in on a solution to the origin-of-life problem with the “principle of RNA self-replication." Read More ›
Beijing
eugenics
Photo: Summer Palace, Beijing, by wtaochina2001, via Pixabay.

China Shows Eugenics Is Not a Thing of the Past

As a tyranny, China is a Wild West of sorts for unethical science, with the government and its researchers answering to no one. Read More ›
thinking
bias
Photo credit: PeterKaul, via Pixabay.

The Materialist Narrative and the Power of Bias

Scientists in Western cultures have been trained to see the world through a materialist metanarrative where the only acting players are matter and energy. Read More ›
Wells 20
Brazil

Intelligent Design Is Flourishing in Brazil

My wife Lucy and I just returned from Brazil, the world’s fifth largest and sixth most populous country. Read More ›
Blind Leading Blind
Photo credit: Lee McLaughlin [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Retractions Show Scientists “Blinded” by Belief

Nobel laureate Jack Szostak has recently retracted a paper. This is a big deal because of who he is and because of where it was published. Read More ›
Sternberg

Chatting with Biologist Richard Sternberg About a Formative Intellectual Experience

Dr. Sternberg described an encounter with theoretical biologist Robert Rosen and his work. Read More ›
James Tour
James Tour
Photo: James Tour, speaking at University of Waterloo, via YouTube.

James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry

A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want. Read More ›
medium ground finch
finches
Photo: Medium ground finch, Galápagos Islands, by Charlesjsharp (Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Zombie Watch: Debunked Finches Re-Emerge to Validate Darwin

Another paper regurgitates a myth that was thoroughly debunked by Jonathan Wells in Zombie Science. Read More ›

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