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New Caledonian crow
Image: New Caledonian crow, by John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Read More ›
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Hawking zero gravity
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Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›
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Image credit: David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-042.

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›
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Photo: Mrs. Humphry Ward, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›
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Bijan Nemati: What the James Webb Telescope May Discover

These glimpses may confirm our most current ideas of early cosmic history and galaxy formation, or turn them on their head. Read More ›
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Photo: Queen Victoria, by Alexander Bassano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith 

Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›
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artificial intelligence
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More Dangers of Totalitarian Science

George Gilder raises concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) — but not the usual economic ones. Read More ›
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Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Read More ›
Marvin Olasky
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Marvin Olasky Joins Discovery Institute as New Senior Fellow

“I’ve long admired Discovery’s courageous work on intelligent design,” said Olasky. Read More ›

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