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Granville Sewell

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Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›
Jerry Coyne
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Jerry Coyne Asks a Good Question 

Actually, the history of life on Earth is very similar to the history of human technology. Read More ›
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How Science Lost Its Mind 

Before Darwin, nearly everyone, in every corner of the world, believed in some type of ‘‘intelligent design,” and the majority still do. Read More ›
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The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›
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Once Again: Who Designed the Designer? 

“Some may ask, ‘What is the origin of the engineers? Therefore I don’t believe that this machine has been designed.’” Read More ›
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Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law

I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.” Read More ›
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In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks

That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation. Read More ›
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Vindicated by Behe: Devolution Is Natural, Evolution Is Not

You do not need to study mutations for thirty years to predict that bombarding plant chromosomes with radiation will not lead to major agricultural advances. Read More ›
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Darwinism — Like Every Other Known Natural Process — Devolves 

Natural selection is not, after all, the one natural process in the universe that can make nature run backward. Read More ›

From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum 

Quite honestly, I think we should be grateful to people like Coyne and Hawking, who carry materialism to its logical conclusions. Read More ›

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