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August 2025

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Biopolymers: Change One Word to Eliminate the Contradiction

The living state itself depends on the prior existence of biopolymers (such as RNA and DNA) which were themselves not produced by abiotic processes. Read More ›
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From Dead Ends to Design: Meyer and Tour on Life’s Code

“Molecules,” chemist James Tour notes, “have “no propensity… to move toward life.” Read More ›
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International Tribunals Grant Nature Rights, Restrict Energy

The vaunted "international community" is going all-in on radical environmentalism. Read More ›
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Photo: The perfect solar eclipse of 1919, by ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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False Science: A Claim to Simulate Protein Evolution

The researchers designed a simulation tool, and then falsely claimed that it represents the evolutionary process. Read More ›
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Fraudulent Science Networks Outpace Legitimate Science

"Before the public loses confidence in the scientific process"? Hasn't that train already left the station? Read More ›
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Hannah Arendt and Stockholm Syndrome

Will Spencer talked with John West about his book on the coopting of Christian leaders. Read More ›
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Fantastic Four and a Walk-On for Darwin

Great tensions fuel engaging drama, always. If there’s a conflict, it has to be stark and serious, and the stakes have to be high.  Read More ›
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Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object?

Three doctors promote the idea of “redefining death” to allow patients to be killed for their organs. Read More ›
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The Unsolved Mystery of Life’s Origin: Stephen Meyer and James Tour

How did life originate? For decades, many scientists clung to “primordial soup” models. Read More ›

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