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Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›
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Image source: Shutterstock, modified by Ryan Axe. 

Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution

As a theistic evolutionist, Hans Vodder thinks God may well have used Darwinian evolution to create the full diversity of life. Read More ›
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Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by permission of Dr. Swamidass.

Critic of Intelligent Design Acknowledges: “Bad Design” Arguments Don’t Work

It’s good to be able to report progress. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dwergenpaartje [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Still More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

Trilobites look up silently from their Burgess Shale rock slabs, with sad eyes, asking, “Where did I come from?” Read More ›
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Image: Sámi shaman, by O. H. von Lode [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientist as Shaman — Seeing Through the Sham

Think, for example, of the late Stephen Hawking and how his fevered pronouncements in his final years were received. Read More ›
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Photo: Moltke crater, by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

A new statistical study of impacts on the moon concludes that the appearance of an increase was an artifact of biased sampling. Read More ›
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Photo: Monarch butterfly, by liz west from Boxborough, MA [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Marvelous Migrations at All Scales

Living things are on the move everywhere. Why do some of them go to great lengths to migrate, while others stay put? Read More ›
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Photo: A hairy-nosed wombat, by VirtualWolf, via Flickr (cropped).

Was Universe Designed for Hairy-Nosed Wombats?

David Barash is an evolutionary biologist known for delivering a yearly talk to his students disabusing them of the idea that science can be reconciled with religious faith. Read More ›
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Photo: Acheulean hand-axes, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New

Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought. Read More ›

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