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Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›
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Summer Seminar Application Deadline Extended to April 30

One of the biggest activities that I missed while living abroad in South Africa doing my PhD was participating in Discovery Institute’s Summer Seminars. Read More ›
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Ten Reasons Why Birds Are Not Living Dinosaurs

Natural selection can explain “the survival of the fittest but not the arrival of the fittest.” Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Great News — Stephen Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis Is a Bestseller!

That means that Dr. Meyer’s message is reaching not just the scientists but the greater reading public. Read More ›
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Explore Intelligent Design in Molecular Biology with Douglas Axe at DiscoveryU

Dr. Axe devotes a lecture to scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s objection to intelligent design based on supposedly “stupid design” in nature. Read More ›
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A New Interview with Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

To those who say ID advocates are only critical of Darwinism because they are not sufficiently versed in genetics, I have a two-word reply. Read More ›
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A Tweet Representing the Core Challenge We Face

Christian Landry is the Principal Investigator of a lab at Laval University in Quebec, doing really interesting work on cellular networks. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scott Turner: New Video Series on His Model for Evolution

Darwin’s ideas have become a flashpoint in the culture, so any discussion of the science can easily become highly polarized and politicized. Read More ›
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Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin

Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions. Read More ›
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New Article Purports to Help Explain the Origin of the Genetic Code

Without all of the described investigator interventions, a system of replicating RNAs could never emerge or even sustain itself. Read More ›

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