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2018

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Dembski and McDowell’s Understanding Intelligent Design: Ten Years On

Sean talks about changes over past decade: Everyone has a smartphone and can, quicker than ever, find someone taking the other side of an argument. Read More ›
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Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
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“Risky” Business — College Shuts Down Professor over Speech on Science, Free Expression

Adam Perkins, King’s College London lecturer in Neurobiology of Personality, was scheduled to deliver a talk at his institution. Read More ›
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Genetics Leaves Central Dogma and Junk DNA in the Rear-View Mirror

Genetics is now a subset of epigenetics, in which multiple dynamic molecules play key roles in homeostasis.  Read More ›
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Colorado Is Ground Zero for “Nature Rights”

Environmentalism isn’t about conservation or protecting endangered species anymore. Read More ›
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Discussion Over: On Adam and the Genome, Former BioLogos Fellow Backs Down

Dennis Venema sought to persuade his fellow Christians that genetic science had disproven the traditional idea of a “bottleneck” of two human ancestors. Read More ›
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Photo: Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, by Duncan Harris from Nottingham, UK [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism

The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers. Read More ›
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Undeniable Intuitions and Unbelievable Coincidences

Any appeal to accidental processes to accomplish an unbelievable coincidence is really just an appeal to unbelievable coincidence. Read More ›
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Avengers: Infinity War — The Culture of Death Goes Galactic

The archvillain's motivations are crystal clear, and very familiar if you know about the views on human population associated with Paul Ehrlich or, even more so, Eric Pianka. Read More ›
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Look What They’re Teaching at Brigham Young University

In biology class, associate professor Jamie Jensen seeks to inculcate her students with Epicureanism. Read More ›

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