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Is the Human Genome Garbage? Biologist Jonathan Wells Says No in New Book, The Myth of Junk DNA

A decade after his book challenged the Darwinian stories told to students and helped change textbooks in science classrooms around the country, Jonathan Wells is back to smash one of evolution's last remaining icons: the myth of junk DNA. Read More ›

Recant! Pushing Creeds as Damage Control for Darwin (Update)

Biologist Thomas H. Huxley, the great defender of Darwin, once famously warned that "Science commits suicide when she adopts a creed." Unfortunately, not all modern evolutionary biologists respect such wisdom. Read More ›

Does Life Use a Non-Random Set of Amino Acids?

If chance and necessity are seemingly inadequate, either on their own or in co-operation, what about the causal powers of agent causality? If, in every other realm of experience, such features are routinely attributed to intelligent causes, and we have seen no reason to think that this intuition is mistaken, are we not justified in positing and inferring that these systems we are finding in biology also originated at the will of a purposive conscious agent? Read More ›

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