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June 2023

DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Read More ›
Temptation_Adam_Eva
Photo: Adam and Eve depicted on a pedestal at Notre-Dame de Paris, by Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Human Origins, New Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Models for Reconciling Science and Religion 

In the final section of the paper, I proposed a scoring system to rate the models. Read More ›
book burning
Photo credit: mikael altemark from STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Read More ›
conodonts
Photo: Conodonts from the Triassic of India, Goel 1977, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal

The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles. Read More ›
Steve Meyer and Bryan Callen
Photo: Steve Meyer and Bryan Callen, courtesy of the Bryan Callen Show.

Friendly Sparring, Verbal and Otherwise, on a Recent Episode of The Bryan Callen Show

The result is the type of interaction we’re secretly craving — energetic conversation between people with differing views but who demonstrate mutual respect. Read More ›
World Health Organization
Photo: World Health Organization, by Yann Forget, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is the Plan to Impose a Public-Health Technocracy Faltering?

In February, I warned about a treaty being negotiated to empower the WHO to declare a pandemic, which would trigger governments assuming emergency powers. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Listen: In a New Book, David Berlinski Gives the Devil His Due

Berlinski is at his best as he discusses everything from the Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern science, to his friendship with Marcel Schützenberger. Read More ›
Buffalo nickel
Photo credit: Brian Wolfe, via Flickr.

Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design

Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide. Read More ›
Tarzan
Image: Tarzan, by J. Allen St. John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Barbarian Within: Darwinism and the Secular Script for Masculinity

Edgar Rice Burroughs set his Tarzan series (1912) in the African jungle. Because of Tarzan’s wild upbringing, he avoids the debilitating forces of civilization. Read More ›
Homo naledi
Photo credit: Lee Roger Berger research team, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Are Skeptical that Intelligence in Homo naledi “Erases Human Exceptionalism”

Berger et al.’s claims about the species have been disputed and their idea that it lived 2-3 million years ago was exaggerated by a factor of 10. Read More ›

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