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Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Jason Rosenhouse, a Crude Darwinist

As a fellow mathematician, I would have liked to see from Rosenhouse a vigorous and insightful discussion of my ideas. Read More ›
Richard-Owen
Photo: Richard Owen (left); beside him is the skeleton of a giant moa, by John van Voorst [Public domain].

Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”

These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz. Read More ›
mathematics
Photo credit: Benjamin Lizardo via Unsplash.

The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics. Read More ›
Zinc
Photo: Zinc, by Alchemist-hp (talk) (www.pse-mendelejew.de), FAL, via Wikimedia Commons.

Zinc and the Miracle of Man

Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943)
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
Lateral line
Photo credit: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)

What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals. Read More ›
Whip Spider
Photo: Whip spider, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous

These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way. Read More ›
Samuel Haughton
Photo: Samuel Haughton, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›
The Miracle of Man
Image source: Discovery Institute.

The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down

The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale. Read More ›
topoisomerase
Image: Topoisomerase II, by Discovery Institute.

Topoisomerase Origins Defy Darwinian Explanations

A review of the topoisomerase family of molecular machines that repair DNA ignores where they came from. Another article tries but has no answers. Read More ›

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