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Gauger: Rebel Science Versus Theistic Evolution

Is it really plausible to say that humans and chimps share an evolutionarily recent common ancestor, some 6 million years ago? Read More ›
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Tom Bethell

Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA. Read More ›
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Photo: Louisiana State Capitol, by joevare, via Flickr.

Listen: Wade Warren on 10th Anniversary of LSEA

The LSEA gave teachers freedom to teach about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Earth from Apollo 10, May 18, 1969, via NASA.

Listen: Morality in a Meaningless World

Discovery Institute fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick. Read More ›
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Photo: Michelangelo’s David, by Jörg Bittner Unna [CC BY 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Two Views of Evolution, and Why They Don’t Mix

If he chose to, could God use a sandstorm to turn a block of marble into a representation of the human form that would put Michelangelo’s David to shame? Read More ›
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Photo credit: cocoparisienne, via Pixabay.

A Child’s Intuition of Purpose in Nature Is No Accident

In 1929, child psychologist Jean Piaget called children “artificialists” who tend to regard everything as “the product of human creation.” Read More ›
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Image: NPCs (nuclear pore complex), from Origin: Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth, courtesy of Illustra Media.

How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates

Details of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex protein systems in the cell, come into sharper focus as a team watches how it validates a messenger RNA. Read More ›
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Image: Bone structure of a human hand, by Henry Gray (1918), Anatomy of the Human Body, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The “Botched” Human Body, Revisited

As a systems architect, I’ve spent decades designing and implementing large and complex systems of information systems. Read More ›
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Image source: Radboud University, via YouTube (screen shot).

More Information Found in DNA: The Shape Code

Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands made “a remarkable discovery” about a protein named Polycomb that binds to DNA. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Lars Ploughman, via Pixabay.

Why Argue with Intelligent Design? Offer Drive-By Psychotherapy Instead!

Avoiding serious discussion of design in nature (and of many other questions) fills a need. Read More ›

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