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Evolutionary Informatics: Marks, Dembski, and Ewert Demonstrate the Limits of Darwinism

As the authors rigorously show, producing anything of significant complexity requires that knowledge of the outcomes be programmed into the search routines. Read More ›
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Bill Nye Insults the World: “Creationists” Have “Small Brains”

Nye is big on praising diversity. But when it comes to a diversity of viewpoints on evolution, the façade of broadmindedness drops. Read More ›
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Japanese Silkworm Researcher Takes on Michael Behe, Proposing “Reducible Complexity”

The author acknowledges major longstanding debates about evolution and offers “certain essential avenues for deciphering the origin of complex adaptive traits.” Read More ›
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Scaffold Without a Blueprint? Another Wild Story of Cambrian “Enablement”

Believe it or not: Those scaffolds you see at construction sites are what make buildings emerge. Read More ›
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Houston Chronicle, We’ve Got a Problem: Meet Fake News Reporter Andrea Zelinski

Zelinski’s articles portray the science standards battle as a struggle to introduce creationism or intelligent design into Texas’s science curriculum. Read More ›
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Postscript on Bill Nye and “Extra” People

Last night I watched Schindler's List on Netflix and was startled by a contrast with what I had been watching, just the day before, the same place. Read More ›

Stenophlebia amphitrite, a Stunningly Gorgeous Dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic

Take a moment and absorb the beauty of two photographs by our colleague Günter Bechly. Read More ›
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Disappointment! Homo naledi Is Younger than Previously Thought

Some scientists hoped that H. naledi would prove to be the fossil to bridge an evolutionary gap. Read More ›
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Seems Like Old Times: Texas Media (Again) Miss the Real Story on State’s Science Standards

At some point, you’d think reporters would be embarrassed about this sort of “zombie journalism.” Read More ›

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