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Image credit: Raul Martin, via EurekAlert! (no restrictions).

More Just-So Rafting Stories: This Time, Dinosaurs

In the past we’ve covered proposals from evolutionists that monkeys rafted across oceans. Why would anyone make such an outlandish proposal? Read More ›
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Photo: Franz Kafka, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Behe: Kafka in Dover, Pennsylvania

Behe concludes here, “Courts are not good places to discuss ideas.” Yet ID critics continue to cite the Dover case as scientific gospel. Read More ›
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Douglas Axe
Photo: Douglas Axe, in a scene from the series Science Uprising “DNA: The Programmer.”

Are Proteins Attracted to Function?

Doug Axe showed that functional space is a tiny fraction of sequence space in proteins. Evolutionists think they found a shortcut. Read More ›
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Photo: Ornithorhynchus anatinus, by Goddard Photography, via EurekAlert!

Biofluorescence in the Platypus — Design at Its Whackadoodliest

Those paragraphs are, not surprisingly, a de rigueur nod to evolutionary theory, and as usual, it's pure gloss, no substance. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance — Premiere and Live Chat, November 12

“But what about bacterial antibiotic resistance!” This is one of the stock attempts to rebut arguments against the creative potential of unguided evolution. Read More ›
George Gilder
Photo: George Gilder.

George Gilder: Can a Computer Model a Brain?

"The brain is not billions of little computers. It vastly exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency but it is not directed to calculation as such." Read More ›
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Image credit: Henrika Šantel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Elements — An Independent Line of Evidence for Intelligent Design

Twenty elements — and water, too — appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Daniele Levis Pelusi via Unsplash.

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Read More ›
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Vote for Fun and Intelligently Designed CSC Products! Welcome to Our New Zazzle Shop

Of course, if you are a scholar in a vulnerable academic position, please enjoy these products only in the privacy of your own home. Read More ›
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Photo: Douglas Axe at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Douglas Axe: The Sway of Self-Image in Evolutionary Debates

You really cannot understand debates about evolution without appreciating the ego — the male ego in particular, you could argue — that is involved. Read More ›

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