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Rutgers University Law Journal Advocates “Intelligence-Based Alternatives” to Darwinism

May a teacher let students know what evolutionary biologists had to say about their own field at the November 2016 Royal Society meeting? Read More ›
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Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”

It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong? 

There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›
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Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors 

It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›
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Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem. Read More ›
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Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology

Darwinian fairy tales about prehistoric Neanderthal proclivities and modern psychology are obvious junk science. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›
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Cambrian Explosion Excuses: Theme and Variations

It’s circular: “Because evolution innovates things, it will innovate things if given the opportunity.” Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

The discrepancy in method is crucial to understanding this argument against Behe. Yet curiously, it is omitted from mention by Lents and Hunt. Why? Read More ›

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