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Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”

Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Read More ›
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Photo: Eokinorhynchus rarus, SEM, Dinghua Yang in Zhang et al. 2015, fair use (Source: http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/ns/RelatedNews/201511/t20151130_156623.html).

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
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“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Read More ›
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Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›
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Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Read More ›
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Photo: Dan Stern Cardinale, via YouTube (screenshot).

Debate: Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale, Thursday, May 2

Okay, this should be interesting. The question up for discussion: "Is the Human Genome Largely Junk DNA?" Read More ›
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›
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Photo: Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann, August 1, 1916. Friedmann was a decorated military aviator and aviation instructor before making a name for himself in cosmology as “the man who proved Einstein wrong.” He is rightly regarded as one of the fathers of the Big Bang. By unknown photographer, 1916, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

A Scientific Revolution Comparable with Copernicus’

The location of his grave was quickly forgotten, since the Stalinist regime was hardly inclined to perpetuate the memory of this “creationist” scientist. Read More ›

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