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Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit 

He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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People Can Do Puzzles — And Why That Matters

Our ability to complete a puzzle hinges upon clues that are unavailable to nature, were natural processes given the task of assembling the puzzle. Read More ›
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New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›
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Long Story Short Debunks Another Tall Tale of Self-Replication

While posing as an educational video with scientific authority, this offering from Stated Clearly conveniently sweeps well-established science under the rug. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer on Darwin’s Other Doubt

Listen to a probing conversation about the growing evidence for intelligent design and the scientific and philosophical problems with Darwinian materialism. Read More ›
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Long Story Short Detonates Propaganda About the Origin of Life

These popular origin-of-life videos subordinate science to ideology. Accurate science clearly contradicts their teaching. Read More ›
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Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Read More ›
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On the Origin of Life, Long Story Short Goes After Pop YouTube Science

“It’s easy to say things that aren’t true and get people to believe them, especially when they sound science-y and are mixed in with well-known facts.” Read More ›
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Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›

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