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Alt-Right’s Interest in Evolution Makes Sense. An Obsession with Taylor Swift? Much Less So

I heard a promotion on our local NPR station for a report about the alt-right and their dual infatuation with Medieval Europe and pop star Taylor Swift. Read More ›
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The Unmistakable Imprint of Purpose — Response to a Theistic Evolutionist

We instantly spot the fruits of fertile imaginations by spotting their characteristic functional coherence. Dragonflies. Smartphones. Nuclear power plants. Read More ›
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But Why Do Biology Textbooks Retain Discredited Evolutionary Icons?

The “experts” who swoop in to assure schools that their textbooks are in no need of fixing present a psychological puzzle. Read More ›
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Thanks for the Memory

Protein chemist Doug Axe responds in characteristically incisive fashion to a typical silly instance of science reporting. Read More ›
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The Challenge to Evolution from Abortion

The whole point of “fitness,” in an evolutionary context, is reproduction. One has higher “fitness” if one can have more offspring. 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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Defense Department-Funded Study Finds that Dogs Relish Praise and Hot Dogs

This is indeed cutting-edge research. Given that, did you wonder if they’d bring evolution into it? Of course they do. Read More ›

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