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Photo: Casey Luskin and Brian Miller at the University of Kenya, courtesy of Casey Luskin.

Luskin and Miller on the State of ID in Africa

The response was inspiring. At the University of Eldoret in Kenya, Luskin and Miller were greeted with no less than a band and a red carpet! Read More ›
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Photo credit: Pisit Heng via Unsplash.

Words for Wednesday! Disentangling ID from Creationism

Yesterday on Stephen Meyer’s Facebook page we launched the new “Terminology Tuesday” feature, with a quick read about just what we mean by intelligent design. Read More ›
Dickinsonia
Photo: Dickinsonia, by Smith609 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute/J. Lee; Processing: NASA/Catholic University of America/Gladys Kober.

Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr.

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ninjatacoshell, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›
James Tour
origin of life
Photo: James Tour, in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer, Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life!”

Rice University chemist James Tour is still on a roll in showing up the empty boasts of origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›
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Image credit: Donald E. Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Miyasige Tosikazu, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›

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