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Developmental Biology of Vertebrate Skeletons Shows Similarities are Better Explained by Design

Evolutionists assume that the traits they classify as homologous share similarities due to their having evolved from a common ancestor. Read More ›
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What Ever Happened to Darwin’s Big Book?

Why didn’t Darwin publish the evidence for his momentous theory? And why was his thesis hailed as one of the greatest ideas in science despite that fact? Read More ›
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Atheist on the Ropes: Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

There’s something wonderful about watching Dawkins being compelled to watch Stephen Meyer and then being obliged to respond. Read More ›
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Fruit Is Designed for Life

This type of multi-purpose optimization speaks more of intelligent foresight and design than random adaptation.  Read More ›
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Photo: A humpback whale, by Whit Welles Wwelles14 / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).

Similarities Between Vertebrate Limbs Are Best Explained Not by Common Ancestry but by Design

The challenge is particularly daunting in the case of whales. The flipper differs in almost every respect from that of its proposed terrestrial ancestor. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›
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Photo: Aurora as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA/Shane Kimbrough.

Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Read More ›
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You Thought the Internet Would Make Life Easier? Get Ready for Mandatory “Personhood Credentials”

Governments have proven themselves quite incapable of keeping information private, as have the largest corporations. Read More ›
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Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare. Read More ›
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Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›

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