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Charles Kingsley
Photo: Charles Kingsley, by Charles Watkins via Wikimedia Commons.

The Rise of Theistic Darwinism

This form of objection left the door ajar to the kind of “hybrid” interpretation favored by some in both Britain and America in the later Victorian period. Read More ›
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Photo: Australopithecus africanus skull, by José Braga; Didier Descouens [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly: Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

Bechly touches on the oldest australopithecine fossil skull ever found, from 3.8 million years ago. Read More ›
Down House
Darwinian
Photo: Down House, home of Charles Darwin, by Mario Modesto [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Hamlet of Down House

Darwin began casting around in his mind for supplementary theories, sometimes going so far as to reconsider evolutionary thinking he had once firmly rejected. Read More ›
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Sunset on the red rocks of the Garden of the Gods State Park in Colorado Springs
Image Credit: Craig Zerbe - Adobe Stock

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design: Tuition-Free “Summer Camp for Nerds”

It’s an opportunity for upper-level undergrads and grad students to break free of the isolation they experience when design is kept off the table. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Elizabeth Smith, via Unsplash.

Where Is the Evidence for Darwinism?

Notoriously, one of the shrewdest of Darwin’s “reticences” concerned the lack of fossil evidence. Read More ›
David Berlinski Ben Shapiro
Photo: David Berlinski via the Ben Shapiro Show.

David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Read More ›
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A sandstone hog back
Image Credit: Skyler - Adobe Stock

Apply Now: Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Have Changed the Course of Many Lives

There is no tuition for the program, to be held in Colorado, and travel scholarships are available. Read More ›
Origin of Species
Douglas Axe
Photo: The Origin of Species, first edition, via Wikimedia Commons.

Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma

A colleague remarked to me (in an uncharacteristically unscholarly disclosure) that he could not share my interest in “all this old 19th-century stuff.” Read More ›
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Photo: Scene from the Behe-Swamidass debate on intelligent design and evolution, a slide by Dr. Behe (bacteriophage); by Forrest Mims.

Bacteriophage Is the New Poster Child for Darwin’s Doom

Through no fault of Darwin’s, neither he nor anyone else in his day had a clue about the nature of cellular life and biological information. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Lukas Ruegger on the “Ediacaran Explosion”— No Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle

Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s, but better. Read More ›

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