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You might think teaching about evolution in public schools is already about as misleading as it can be. Then, you find, it gets worse.

Many critics have insisted that evolution can produce irreducibly complex structures, pointing notably to the example of Avida, a computer model demonstrated in a 2003 Nature paper.

Darwinian evolution has no prior knowledge about the search target, but Avida’s programmers have intelligently designed Avida by smuggling in “active information.”

There is no reason for Pennock’s rule other than to short-circuit the origins debate and rule intelligent design out-of-court without addressing the evidence.

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health.

In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers.

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them.

The Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science.

Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef.

It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism.

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science.

President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.”