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Photo: A gift for Professor Dave, via YouTube (screenshot).

“Professor Dave” and the Art of Projection

If I ever get asked to write a chapter on projection for a psychology textbook, Dave Farina’s outrageously disrespectful performance will be exhibit A. Read More ›
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James Tour: Primordial Soup Bluffing Goes Right to the Top

Dr. Tour also reviews survey data showing just how misinformed the public is about how far scientists have gotten in creating life in the lab. Read More ›
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Film Festival 2023 — “Blood Clotting: The Body’s Emergency Response System”

Today we are proud to screen a video from our “Secrets of the Cell” series that highlights an amazing feature of the body’s emergency response system. Read More ›
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Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution

An email correspondent who is friendly to intelligent design (ID) recently wrote us asking how to respond to common objections to ID arguments about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Read More ›
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Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe speaking at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Film Festival 2023 — “Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines”

Today we feature a video that reveals the revolutionary science of ID and its ability to investigate the wonderful mystery of molecular machines. Read More ›
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Photo: Greater blind mole rat, by GalinaGouz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could Blind Forces Build a Self-Replicating Molecule?

Rob Stadler and Eric Anderson examine a recent paper on the origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.” Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›
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Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson glimpsed in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

Film Festival 2023 — “Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Stupid ‘Stupid Design’ Argument”

Today we are highlighting a video featuring molecular biologist Douglas Axe of Biola University and his response to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›

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