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Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”

No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace — New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution

Wallace broke with Darwin and became, arguably, the founding father of modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›
Ernst Mayr
Photo: Ernst Mayr, by University of Konstanz [CC BY 2.5 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr

Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism. Read More ›
zebra finch
Photo: A zebra finch, Dundee Wildlife Park, Murray Bridge, South Australia, by Peripitus [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›
J.P. Moreland
Photos: J.P. Moreland, lecturing at the 2018 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, by Daniel Reeves.

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Expand Students’ Intellectual Horizons

A primary reason why many biologists never question the standard evolutionary model is their very limited training in mathematics. Read More ›
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Is Free Will an Illusion?

if we are wholly matter, and matter is wholly governed by physical law, there is no room for free will. Read More ›
Geoffrey Simmons
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Photo: Center for Science & Culture Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem, courtesy of Dr. Simmons.

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant? 

There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›
Tree of Life
Photo: Tree of Life, at Walt Disney World Resort, by KirkMoorePhoto [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›
Giraffes
Photo credit: Luca Galuzzi (Lucag) [CC BY-SA 2.5 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon?

Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›

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