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Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›
Arctic tern
Photo: An Arctic tern, by AWeith, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Watch: Animal Algorithms and the Bluff of Darwinism

Human navigation technology is just catching up to what animals like these can do by instinct. Read More ›
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human origins
Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Eugenie Scott Gets Intelligent Design Backwards 

This punctuated, even saltational increase in hominid skull sizes over time continues to be recognized in the literature. Read More ›
Eugenie Scott
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Eugenie Scott Lecture Resurrects, Spreads Misinformation on Intelligent Design

There often seems to be a subtext to her remarks, as if she were telling her audience: “Go forth and persecute.” Read More ›
Orion Constellation
Photo: Orion Constellation, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Michael Denton on Fine-Tuning: Wheels Within Wheels

When it comes to evidence of fine-tuning in the universe, the more you look, the more you find. Read More ›
Arabidopsis thaliana
Photo: Arabidopsis thaliana, © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

Plant Biologist: “Mutation Is Very Non-Random”

Many people I know in the ID community are strongly interested in rethinking mutation, understanding it as a designed or regulated process. Read More ›
Area 51
Photo: Area 51, by X51 (Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/x51/ Web: http://x51.org/), CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biology as Reverse Engineering

An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51. Read More ›
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Photo: Sea otters seem to enjoy grooming, by "Mike" Michael L. Baird, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hairy Matters for Evolution

Thin strands we call hair can give headaches to Darwinists. Here are some surprising stories about hair. Read More ›
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Engineers Crash the Evolution Party, Rethink Biological Variation

Miller and Luskin discuss fruit flies, finch beaks, stickleback fish, mutational hotspots, phenotypic plasticity, and the gravity well model. Read More ›

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