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Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?

Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible. Read More ›
Ronald Fisher
Photo: Ronald Fisher at age 23, via University of Adelaide [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Behe on Darwinism’s “Socially Inherited Dependence on Classical Yet Irrelevant Math”

Professor Behe traces the errant thinking to an outdated mathematical picture taken from Ronald Fisher and his 1930 book, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Read More ›
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Behe
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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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Kepler
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Kepler Versus Religion as a Football

Evolutionists play a game, and it’s a shallow one. So what’s the truth about science, and religion, and how they do or do not fit together? Read More ›
University of Bologna
atheist
Photo: University of Bologna, the world’s oldest university, by Biopresto [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›
mathematics
Photo credit: Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums by Reuben Teo on Unsplash.

BIO-Complexity Article Offers an Objective Method for Weighing Darwinian Explanations

Skeptics of evolutionary theory have argued that proposed Darwinian processes don’t rise to the level of plausible detailed explanations for the emergence of complex life. Read More ›
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Designed
Photo: An oak tree, by RegalShave, via Pixabay.

Why the Conclusion that Life Is Designed Really Is Inescapable

For theists to eschew the claim that life is designed is puzzling, because nothing seems to force them to adopt that counterintuitive stance. Read More ›
Wistar Institute
Photo: Wistar Institute, by Jeffrey M. Vinocur [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Wistar: Been There, Done That

Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›

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