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Science and Its Consequences: Kevin Williamson Versus Intelligent Design, Again

The question before us was whether anyone but journalists and other amateurs take the science of ID, “daft rube-bait” according to Kevin, seriously. Read More ›
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Screenshot from Ben Shapiro's interview with Stephen Meyer, via YouTube.

Ben Shapiro May Have Done the Best Interview with Stephen Meyer That I’ve Seen

He knows the common challenges to intelligent design and poses them very articulately, and he’s obviously absorbed Meyer’s books. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Natural History Museum, London, by Bruno Martins via Unsplash.

Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science

Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.” Read More ›
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Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson

Of course, an allergy to conceding error is not unique to ID opponents, but it is typical of them. Read More ›
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Photo credit: University of Chicago’s Hull Library, by Josh Evnin, via Flickr(cropped).

New Model Legislative Resolution on University Student Academic Freedom in Science

From otherwise very impassioned and articulate commentators, the silence on this subject is remarkable. Truly, it’s a scandal. Read More ›
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The “I Won’t Debate” Tactic

Good grief, if we face total calamity by the end of the century, why in the world wouldn’t you debate the science? Read More ›
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Photo: Arizona Republic Building, by Zeb Micelli [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Stop the Presses! Columnist Reports Accurately on Arizona Science Standards

It’s always encouraging when this happens. The problem is, it happens all too rarely. Read More ›
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Photo: Kanye West, by rodrigoferrari [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Kanye Imagine? “Scientists Don’t Have to Be Darwinists”

Thanks to Kanye West and Chance the Rapper, an idea has sprung on the culture like a thunderclap. Read More ›

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