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Michael Shermer and the Laws of Complexity

Recently, atheist Michael Shermer debated Catholic philosopher Edward Feser. The subject was Feser’s new book on five arguments for the existence of God. Read More ›

Physicist David Snoke: If DNA Is Designed, Its History by Definition Must Already Be Erased

Most people are accustomed to scientific explanations being historical in nature. Read More ›
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Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›
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Human Origins: Out of Africa, or Out of Germany?

Major discoveries in paleoanthropology that have made 2017 a kind of annus horribilis for the established scientific consensus on human evolution. Read More ›
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Comb jelly Phylum Ctenophora
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Embracing Uncertainty: Evolution’s Latest Dodge

Faced with conflicting genetic evidence, Darwinians reach for a new “uncertainty principle” borrowed from physics. Read More ›
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You’ve Been Edited — Another ID Scholar, Walter Bradley, Gets the Wikipedia Treatment

We reported here the other day that distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly was erased by Wikipedia. Read More ›

Evolution and Education — The Evolution Institute Weighs In

Education functions best when we focus not on soliciting student agreement or buy-in to a rigid creed, but rather on stimulating the critical faculties. Read More ›
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Science Philosopher: Science World Beset by “Filters,” “Conformity,” “Hidebound” Thinking

How often have we heard the stale line about how science adores fresh thinking that topples past idols? Read More ›

How to Think About Minority Science Views — The Case of Plate Tectonics

The idea that continents drift is now taken for granted, but it wasn’t always. Read More ›
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An Extraterrestrial Spin on the RNA World

The authors argue that RNA molecules appeared in warm little ponds more than 4.17 billion years ago, transported by “meteorites and interplanetary dust particles." Read More ›

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