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Photo: Vestigial structures? You decide. Via Wikicommons.

Theology in Biology Class: Vestigial Structures as Evidence for Evolution

I was recently reading over the Louisiana science standards, adopted this past March. Read More ›
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Image: Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand

I've been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference. Read More ›
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The Pursuit of Veritas

As the new school year begins, a group of Ivy League educators (among them, Robert P. George) urge college students to “think for yourself.” Read More ›
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Photo: Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls (center) with William Penney and John Cockcroft, by Los Alamos National Laboratory [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship

A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it. Read More ›
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Photo: Louisiana State Capitol, by Bluepoint951 [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons.

New (Bogus) Line of Attack on Louisiana Science Education Act

"Researchers at MIT have found evidence confirming what many educators and science advocates have feared." Oh, really? Read More ›
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Darwinists Are Practiced in Shuffling Statues

What they did to Richard Owen could teach today’s vandals a thing or two. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Online Mob

Megan McArdle, reflecting on the James Damore story that's already receding from memory, points out that "We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs." Read More ›
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Evolutionist: Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee, Certainly Not for ID

We love evolutionist Jerry Coyne in part because unlike more wary Darwinists, he blunders into contradictions all the time that expose the inconsistencies in his view of the world. Read More ›
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In Science Education, Academic Freedom Makes Progress Across America

Sarah Chaffee spoke to AF proponents in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. Read More ›

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