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With James Tour, I Have Been Assessing the Evidence for Evolutionary Innovation

The evidence that is most often presented in support of evolution (i.e., the fossil record and homology) fails to meet the criteria for providing confidence. Read More ›
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Scott Adams Explains: How to Be an ID Critic

His tips for trolling include, “Misstate then criticize,” “Context doesn’t matter,” and “You understand science” (but nobody who disagrees with you does). Read More ›
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Scott Adams: Intelligent Design (Of a Sort!) Is “Close to 100 Percent” Certain

I wrote the following in December 2018. Poor Scott Adams, beloved podcaster and creator of Dilbert, died today of cancer at age 68. Read More ›
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New Video: “How Your Smartphone Points to God”

If evolution is defined as an unguided process, then inserting “God used” it into the sentence doesn’t affect the argument of this little video at all. Read More ›
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New Paper Fails to Settle Debate Over Bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Many have called this fossil a human ancestor that lived at about 7 million years ago, around the time of our supposed most recent common ancestor with chimps. Read More ›
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Sex: A Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

Sexual reproduction is a seeming waste of resources producing little or no short-term advantages. Read More ›
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In Biology, Replacing Chance with Purpose Is the New Paradigm

The history of science begins largely in Western Europe with the overthrow of Thomistic Aristotelianism by René Descartes. Read More ›
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New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Read More ›
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Experts, Non-Experts, and the Wrong Experts

Philosopher of science Elay Shech gives RFK Jr. grief for a statement back in August that “Science is always evolving.” Read More ›
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The Strongest Argument for Intelligent Design Is Also the Simplest

“Those are just the skulls,” I protested. “The outside of my 1980s PC looks pretty similar to the frame of my new HP computer." Read More ›

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