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Surprise: Lents Clarifies that Book Not Intended as Refutation of Intelligent Design!

I explained that his writing has certainly seemed like a subtweet, at the very least, directed at ID. Others appear to understand it similarly. Read More ›
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Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design

True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›
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Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›
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Bechly: Why the Phenomenon of Living Fossils Is Under “Massive Attack”

If you ever encounter a horseshoe crab on the beach, you are a looking at a creature that would not have appeared out of place hundreds of millions of years ago. Read More ›
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Farewell: On Evolution “Myth” and Intelligent Design, Tom Wolfe Boldly Told the Truth

He built up to his final act of treason against politically correct expectations with his last book, The Kingdom of Speech, a repudiation of Darwinism. Read More ›
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Pinocchio and Geppetto: A Puppet Postscript

This, from a critic seeking to dissuade viewers from the intelligent design position, is the carefully selected metaphor for casting ID as emotionally cold and remote? Read More ›
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V0011947 A psychiatrist with intense, bulging eyes. Colour process pr Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A psychiatrist with intense, bulging eyes. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930. By: Carl JosefPublished: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Next Time I Need a Therapist, I’m Staying Away from Jeremy P. Shapiro

For remarkable blindness to his own “thinking errors,” Dr. Shapiro gets a prize. Read More ›
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Mission Impossible: From the BioLogos Files

By all means, if they’re discovering new common ground with ID, warmly welcome these good people and thoughtful scientists aboard. Read More ›

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