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Darrel Falk’s Volte-Face on the Cambrian Explosion

I appreciate that Dr. Falk and his colleagues at BioLogos would like to engage in a productive “dialogue” with proponents of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Social Exclusion and the Evolution Debate

Social exclusion via refusal to engage is probably the most powerful and effective means of controlling the debate about origins within science. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: Brian Miller Distills a Debate Between Dave Farina and James Tour

No one — not even the most elite of origin-of-life scientists — has a clue how life could have arisen through blind natural forces on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man

On the book's 150th anniversary, a prestigious journal is catching up with Darwin critics. Read More ›
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Billions of Missing Links: Mysteries Evolution Can’t Explain

Every new discovery brings many more questions, and ever more evidence that blind evolution cannot explain life’s astonishingly sophisticated designs. Read More ›
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Is the INK4a/ARF Overlap a Settled Example of Poor Design?

Dr. DeBenedictis’s basic argument is that there is a section of the human genome where two genes overlap, both of which are important for suppressing tumors. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to an Unguided Origin of Life

Such an event would have involved a breathtaking increase in new information, and physics tells us clearly that mindless nature only degrades information. Read More ›
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Study Challenges Evolutionary Relationship Between Flagellum and Type III Secretory System

There are various types of flagella, but all function like a rotary engine made by humans. Even non-ID scientists marvel at the complexity of these machines. Read More ›
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Axe: Why Darwinists Hope You Don’t Know Math

Mathematics has been at the foundation of modern challenges to neo-Darwinism, while those challenges are met mostly with handwaving. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?

The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Read More ›

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