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Photo: Tree of Life, at Walt Disney World Resort, by KirkMoorePhoto [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree

If the evidence is more suggestive of a creative enterprise like software engineering, that would have major implications. Read More ›
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Image source: The Biology of the Baroque (screen shot), via Discovery Institute.

Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›
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Photo: Maples leaves, by Willow [CC BY-SA 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Denton’s Intellectual Evolution

“Life’s order,” say biologist Mike Denton, “is written into the very fabric of reality itself. It’s not an add-in. It’s in there from the very beginning.” Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved, via Discovery Institute

Great Minds: Stephen Meyer Interviews Michael Medved About Intelligent Design of U.S. History

Meyer asks Medved about the series of amazing coincidences that have guided the history of the country, starting with the meeting of the Pilgrims with their Indian friend Squanto. Read More ›
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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Photo: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate, by Oregon State University via Flickr (cropped).

Intelligent Design Wins Another Nobel Prize

The design inference is obvious but often implicit, because explicit acknowledgement of design in biology carries with it substantial career risk. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben, via NASA. 

Parker Solar Probe Sweeps Past Venus, as Denton Renews Our Wonder About the Sun

Our relationship to this most familiar star is something that, as light-dependent aerobes, we often blithely take for granted. Read More ›
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Image: Hemoglobin, Illustra Media, from Origin: Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth.

Dazzling Acts in the Cell Circus

If life didn’t depend on these acts by cellular organelles and molecules, we would consider them death-defying performances in the greatest show on earth. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer’s Next Frontier: The Return of the God Hypothesis

Meyer is well known as a leading proponent of ID, the scientific alternative to theories of unguided evolution. He talks here about his exciting and important next book. Read More ›
A Deist in Christian Clothing?
Photo: Denis Lamoureux at TEDxEdmonton (screen shot), via YouTube.

A Deist in Christian Clothing?

Denis Lamoureux unwittingly encourages Christians to embrace not a meaningful dialogue between faith and science but a self-imposed intellectual captivity. Read More ›

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