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Jonathan Wells

UC Berkeley

Meeting Phil Johnson at Berkeley

As a biology graduate student, I had seen first-hand some of the alleged evidence for the “fact” of common descent. Read More ›
Marcos Eberlin
Foresight
Photo: Marcos Eberlin, speaking in Dallas this month, by Chris Morgan.

An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight

Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better. Read More ›
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René Descartes
Image: René Descartes, after Frans Hals, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›
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Photo: A image from Fr. Michael Chaberek’s website Aquinas.Design.

Science and Faith — A Report from Colombia

Rick Sternberg and I agreed that this was one of the best conferences we had ever attended. Read More ›
Unity and Diversity of Life
University of Utah
Image: A scene from “The Unity and Diversity of Life” via University of Utah (screen shot).

Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center. Read More ›
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Photo: Breast cancer cell, via National Cancer Institute.

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
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Tom Bethell

Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA. Read More ›
Alice Roberts
Photo: The Perfect Human Body according to Alice Roberts, via BBC Four(screen shot).

The Perfect Human Body?

For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›

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