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2018

Darwin Tree
Image: Darwin’s Tree (1837), a sketch from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and Common Descent

A reader asks, “I was just wondering why some fellows at Discovery believe in ID but still hold to common descent.“ Read More ›
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Lovecraft
Photo: H.P. Lovecraft in 1934, by Lucius B. Truesdell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Halloween Offering: H.P. Lovecraft Versus Theistic Evolutionists

Play the videotape of evolutionary history back again and Ken Miller imagines you get a charming brainy creature for God to play with — something lovable and admirable. Read More ›
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Image credit: geralt, via Pixabay.

Great Idea: Let Students Debate Evolution!

If standard Darwinian theory is really as ironclad as we are commanded to assume, then the exercise should reinforce belief in evolution. Read More ›
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artificial intelligence
Image credit: geralt, via Pixabay.

Examining Randy Isaac’s Critique of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics

The standard evolutionary model is incapable of driving major transformations such as a fish evolving into an amphibian. Read More ›
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Photo: A bust of Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck Society, Germany, via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” — Wait, What?

One might add that this analysis applies to the world of life as a whole. Read More ›
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Discovery Insiders Tour
Photo: Masada National Park, Israel, by Andrew Shiva/Wikipedia.

Join the Discovery Insiders Tour to Israel and Explore a Very Timely and Precious Vision

This is something seemingly new under the sun — Jews and Christians united because of their faiths, not despite them. Read More ›
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Photo: Atheist Lawrence Krauss and Christian theistic evolution Denis Lamoureux (r.) team up in a debate against Stephen Meyer, via Wycliffe College, University of Toronto (screen shot). 

Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication

Attacks by Christian theistic evolutionists have often followed the same patterns as those of their secular colleagues. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
Photo: E. coli bacteria, living a better life, by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution

The contrast between the evolutionary sterility of Lenski’s unintelligent Darwinian evolution and the evolutionary potency of Arnold, Smith, and Winter’s intelligent evolution is striking. Read More ›
Richard Dawkins
Photo credit: Paul Nelson.

Richard Dawkins as Reluctant Darwinian

At a debate in Chicago between Dawkins and Bret Weinstein, I witnessed something that I never thought I’d see. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin, by Julia Margaret Cameron [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Why Does Darwinism Hang On?

David Berlinski notes, “Applying Darwinian principles to problems of this level of complexity is like putting a Band-Aid on a wound caused by an atomic weapon.” Read More ›

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