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Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Why Wallace Was Overshadowed by Darwin

Historian Michael Flannery continues his discussion with Tom Woodward about Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution. Read More ›
nebula IC 2631
Photo: Nebula IC 2631, by NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Casey Luskin: The Irony of Theistic Evolution

The Christian or Jewish theistic evolutionist actually goes a step further than arch-atheist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
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Photo: Plato, Vatican Museum, by Dudva, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist

The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Read More ›
Katydid
Photo: A katydid, by Evolution News.

Hear This: Cricket Ears Evolved Like Vertebrate Ears

These findings challenge Darwinism because species that are clearly unrelated by common ancestry employ common engineering principles. Read More ›
Pakicetus_Canada
Photo: Pakicetus, by Kevin Guertin from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Shave a Cow: Sternberg on Whale Evolution

That evolution, over a span of 11 million years or so, was once hailed as a “poster child” for the confirmation of Darwinian theory. Read More ›
orca
Photo credit: Thomas Lipke via Unsplash.

Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Read More ›
cookies
Photo credit: Tijana Drndarski via Unsplash.

Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

Why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Doug Axe’s research? Read More ›
spider
design intuition
Photo credit: edbuscher, via Pixabay.

The Miracle of Spiderwebs

Spiders are another of nature’s master engineers. About half of known spider species (order Araneae) construct webs made of silk. Read More ›
Bryozoa
Photo: Fossil bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician, by Wilson44691, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More Cambrian Woes for Evolution

New fossils continue to put pressure on the evolutionary narrative of gradualism. Read More ›
Animal Algorithms
Image source: Discovery Institute Press.

Animal Algorithms — Webinar on Thursday with Eric Cassell, Casey Luskin

Charles Darwin conceded that such instincts are “so wonderful” that their origin would strike many as “a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.” Read More ›

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