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Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”

The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out. Read More ›
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Image: "Black Hole Bounty Captured in the Center of the Milky Way," by NASA/Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Astrophysics and Molecular Genetics with the Parking Brake On

The ancient model of the cosmos, which was the model presupposed by most scientists prior to the mid 20th century, was Steady State. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents “Plays Ball” on Biological Design

In all of his “poor” design arguments, Lents inadvertently embraces the design inference. Read More ›
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Photo: Nathan Lents speaking at the San Francisco Public Library (screen shot), via YouTube.

Nathan Lents and the Wisdom of Testicles

He thinks they should be inside the body, not outside. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jayel Aheram, via Flickr.

Nathan Lents: Science with the Parking Brake On 

In his new book, Lents has taken intelligent design theory to task. He is right to do so. How? Read More ›
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Image: Stump Speaking, 1886, by George Caleb Bingham, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”

A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›
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Photo: U.S. Air Force/Carol Lawrence.

The Eye Evolution Simulation That Failed

Biologists Jonathan Wells and Ray Bohlin talk about a conversation that Dr. Wells imagined between evolutionists Richard Dawkins and Dan-Eric Nilsson Read More ›
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Photo credit: University of Illinois Library (Textbooks in the Curriculum Collection) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biased School Textbooks Aren’t Limited to Biology

Textbook publishers use their influence over kids and the appearance of neutrality to advance a set of strong biases. Read More ›

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