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global warming
Photo: A “hamburger” prepared from artificial “meat,” by World Economic Forum [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Oh No: It Turns Out Lab-Grown Meat Causes Global Warming Too

Getting billions of people to stop eating meat isn’t very realistic, so some have put their hopes in lab-grown steaks made from stem cells. Read More ›
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Photo: American Association for the Advancement of Science, HQ, Washington, D.C., by Matthew G. Bisanz [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Hysteria: Scientists Link Darwin Devolves with Measles Upsurge, Catastrophic Climate Change

Duke University professor Alexander Rosenberg has until now held the prize for the most over-the-top demonizing of the mild-mannered biochemist. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe in Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

Darwin Devolves: Another Huge Advance Against Darwinism and for Intelligent Design

This book is built on solid science. It’s going to be harder than ever for critics to spit it out just because they don’t like its taste. Read More ›
Luis de Molina
Image: Luis de Molina (1535-1600).

Claim: Evolution Proves Molinism, and Molinism Proves Evolution

Unfortunately, religion has infected science and the result is bad religion and bad science. Read More ›
perpetual motion machine
Averick
Photo: A phony perpetual motion machine, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, by Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Averick Takes on the “God of the Gaps” Objection

He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Read More ›
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Image credit: Planck satellite, by ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades

The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years. Read More ›
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Galileo Myth Goes Marching On

He lived out his life at his comfortable rural estate, Villa Il Gioiello, on the hillside outskirts of Florence. Read More ›
Human Zoos
Ota Benga

Listen: Bought in a Slave Auction, Displayed as Evolutionary “Science”

The association with “mainstream science” is often weaponized as a way of overawing us and persuading us to stop expecting answers to hard questions. Read More ›
polar bear
Richard Lenski
Photo credit: Annie Spratt via Unsplash.

Lessons from Polar Bear Studies

Computer methods of analyzing mutations are widely used because they are generally accurate. They do not suddenly lose their accuracy when I cite them. Read More ›

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