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Photo credit; Chris De Hauwere, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Let’s Enter “Bat Echolocation Evolution” in Google Scholar

How did it arise? Is a detailed description available out there? When I tried that search myself, the first paper that came up was this one. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Thomas Bresson, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Honeybees, Traffic Accidents, and the Immaterial Genome

An RV strangely burst into explosive flames yesterday afternoon in a traffic accident in the Mount Baker tunnel that leads from Seattle across Lake Washington. Read More ›
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Tribalism in the Evolution Debate

What is all this about “lying”? Cornelius Hunter provides some context at the end of his video that I thought was insightful. Read More ›
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The closeup image of Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) wing. a southeast Asian species of megabat, primarily feeds on flowers, nectar and fruit.
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Professor Stern Cardinale Stumbles on Bat Wing Evolution

Behe was right. Dan Stern Cardinale really shouldn’t have called him liar for stating the truth. That was not a good idea. Read More ›
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Image source: Darwin's God, via YouTube (screenshot).

Rutgers Biologist Dan Stern Cardinale Calls Professor Michael Behe a Liar, Liar, Liar!

Ah, Dr. Dan is back. And you know that when someone goes for the all caps option, he’s really serious.  Read More ›
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“Recant!” A Sternberg Story that (Almost) Got Away

The priest cited to Sternberg the experience of Greeks when they lived under harsh Turkish rule. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Sternberg, via Science Uprising.

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Fragility of Faith

Physicist Brian Miller wrote earlier today with a wonderful concision about why Richard Sternberg’s immaterial genome spells doom for Darwinism. Read More ›
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Back to the Future with Larry Sanger — And Chris Rufo, Richard Sternberg, and Michael Egnor

There is something thrilling about looking back at a neglected text or person from the past and finding that — wow! — it or he speaks to issues of my own day. Read More ›
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Larry Sanger at Discovery Institute's 2024 COSM Technology Summit
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity

Sanger was content with his agnosticism until a student posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Read More ›

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