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Greenland Ice Sheet
Photo: Greenland Ice Sheet.

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Photo: Gertrude Himmelfarb on Booknotes, with Brian Lamb, in 1995 via YouTube (screenshot).

#10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb

It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›
Caldwell 78
Photo: Caldwell 78, by NASA, ESA, and G. Piotto (Università degli Studi di Padova); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

The Heavens Declare: Looking Forward to 2021

As to evidence for intelligent design, my impression has long been that the ancients gave more weight to the stars than to their own bodies. Read More ›
red blood cells
red blood cells
Image credit: Vector8DIY, via Pixabay.

Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug. Read More ›
Cambrian event
computer simulation
Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Grandeur in Extinctions?

New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Photo: A flightless cormorant, endemic to the Galápagos Islands, by putneymark / CC BY-SA.

Michael Behe: Evolution by Devolution

An example of this devolutionary process on a showy scale? Flightless island birds, devolved from birds that could fly. Read More ›
Brierley Behe Swamidass
Photo: Clockwise from top left, Justin Brierley, Joshua Swamidass, and Michael Behe (screenshot).

The Myth of Behe “Refuted”

Once again, Darwinists seek to avoid an argument by using clever talk, giving the false impression of a scientist, Behe, who brushes away challenges. Read More ›
alien life
Photo credit: Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash.

Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life, and More

They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies. Read More ›
tap dancers
Photo: Tap dancing, Iowa State College, 1942, by Jack Delano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›
ProofsofGod cover

ID Made Sassy: A New Book for Young People

Douglas Ell's concept is a dialogue between Doubt and Reason, who sass each other merrily. Read More ›

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