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2022

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Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Circuitous Journey to Faith

Today’s episode is the first in an occasional series, "Why It Matters," spotlighting ID researchers and hearing from them how they got into intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Andy Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Springtails: Wingless Arthropods that Can Fly

The fossil record shows a “Hexapod Gap.” Unfortunately for Darwin, the two leading theories to explain the gap can be ruled out. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave. Read More ›
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Photo: Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Seattle, by Seattle Parks via Flickr (cropped).

Nature Worship Advances as Human Dignity Retreats

The dead body has value because the human person does. How we treat our dead reflects our views on what we think about the living. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis: In Defense of Stephen Meyer’s Book Title

What Dr. Meyer did was enter the atheist camp, take up their flawed tools, and defeat them with their own weapons. Read More ›
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Luskin on the Heart of Intelligent Design Theory

Dr. Luskin also responds to evolutionist attempts to explain the origin of exquisite molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum motor. Read More ›
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Sabine Hossenfelder, Taking on Consciousness, Tackles Panpsychism

She wants to apologize to all carrots who are watching her video — but carrots are not watching and that’s the point. Read More ›
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Listen: “Design Errors” in the Human Body?

Nathan Lents often ignores something basic to engineering — the necessity of design tradeoffs. Read More ›
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Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils
Photo: Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Read More ›
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Photo: Angiosperm-like pollen Type I from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland, modified after Hochuli & Feist-Burkhardt 2013 in Frontiers, CC BY 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. Read More ›

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