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#2 of Our Top Stories of 2019: BIO-Complexity Paper Shows We Could Have Come from Two

New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports. Read More ›
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Human Origins: Not a Simple Question

Is this proof of Adam and Eve? Far from it. It merely shows they might be possible. This model is scientific and as such is falsifiable. Read More ›
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Bible. Old Testament. Creation. Genesis. God created Adam and Eve and provided all they needed in the Garden of Eden.
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“Unique Human Origins”: Explained

One scenario involves a first human pair created from scratch — Adam and Eve, as many traditional religious believers would have it. Read More ›
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The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›
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New BIO-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come from Two

New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports. Read More ›
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Photo: John Derbyshire (center) discusses “6 Ways Race Realism Can Go Mainstream,” via YouTube (screen shot).

The Return of John Derbyshire

The thread of what the alt-right calls “Race Realism” has never been completely absent from Darwinian theorizing. Read More ›
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Photo: Unite the Right rally, 2017, by Evan Nesterak [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Razib Khan: A Geneticist and the Alt-Right

He canoodled with white supremacists, and now advises conservatives not to engage with Darwin skeptics. Read More ›
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Listen: Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Randomness in Natural Selection

As Lönnig points out, Richard Dawkins and others are at great pains to deny the connection. Why would that be? Read More ›
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No Triangulation as Michael Behe Headlines 2019 Westminster Conference

As I’m writing this I’ve been reacquainting myself with physicist Marcelo Gleiser, who just won the year’s prestigious, $1.5 million Templeton Prize. Read More ›
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Don’t Let Anti-GMO Fanatics Thwart Improved Photosynthesis Crops

It is flat-out unreasoning — and in my view, anti-human. Read More ›

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