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Getting Out Truth Around Mainstream News

This was a major accomplishment, considering how intelligent design proponents or anyone who critiques evolution is treated in mainstream media. Read More ›
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A group of monkeys on a raft in a river, carrying bunches of bananas.
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In Evolution, Explaining vs. Explaining Away: Rafting Monkeys and More

Says Casey Luskin, "If you're an evolutionist, you have a serious problem. Where do South American monkeys come from?" Read More ›
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Photo: Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, by ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

Astrobiology as a Secular Quest for Meaning

I don’t think this stuff does any harm — as long as it is understood as drama and not given undue importance in science or philosophy. Read More ›
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Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.
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“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›
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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›
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Image: The Fountain of Youth (1546), by Lucas Cranach, via Wikimedia Commons.

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

It is said to be is devoting much energy and many resources to the life-extension project. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Bobjgalindo, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary. Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public.” Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Products from polyurethane on the exhibition stand. Industry
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Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

What is polyurethane and where is it used? It’s a type of plastic and it is pretty much everywhere: shoes, clothes, yoga mats, mattresses, couch cushions. Read More ›
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Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).

Will Other Evolutionary Biologists Speak Out About These Misleading Videos?

So, what does it matter if visually compelling but absolutely rubbishy videos give kids and their parents entirely the wrong perception of evolutionary theory? Read More ›

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