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September 2023

driverless car
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What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
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For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read More ›
hospital
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Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
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An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›
Mammoth
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What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
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Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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