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The Problem with “Bad Design” Arguments

In a physical world there will be design constraints, so it is only realistic to expect tradeoffs. Read More ›
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Meet Aleš Hrdlička, FDR’s Favorite Eugenicist

Darwin-inspired eugenics and racial pseudoscience are like some sort of insidious, and hideous, household pest. Read More ›
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Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
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Genetics Leaves Central Dogma and Junk DNA in the Rear-View Mirror

Genetics is now a subset of epigenetics, in which multiple dynamic molecules play key roles in homeostasis.  Read More ›
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Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism

The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers. Read More ›
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Look What They’re Teaching at Brigham Young University

In biology class, associate professor Jamie Jensen seeks to inculcate her students with Epicureanism. Read More ›
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Eyes in a Twinkling? 

In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps. Read More ›

Reality Check: Has Science Explained the Origin of Life?

Imagine you wanted someone who hasn’t the faintest idea what a book is to make a book from scratch. Read More ›

With Mark Levin on Fox News, David Berlinski Talks “Evolution, Science, Progressivism”

I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV. Read More ›

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