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Joseph-Stalin
Photo: Paining of Stalin in the Joseph Stalin Museum, by Andrew Milligan sumo, via Flick (cropped).

How Darwin Shaped the Young Joseph Stalin

Jonathan Wells notes that a figure in the totalitarian tradition was influenced by evolution from a very early age. Read More ›
Ediacaran-sea
Image: An artist imagines a scene from Ediacaran seafloor, by James St. John / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion

The claim that a spike in carbon isotope concentrations led to the explosion of biological diversity in the Cambrian doesn’t hold up, as if it would have helped, anyway. Read More ›
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campfire
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Combustion Is Anything but Ordinary

The combustion of wood or coal may seem so familiar as to be unworthy of any comment. Read More ›
water wire
Image: Water wire, by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, via Poul Petersen, Cornell University/EurekAlert!

Biophysicists Find Water Wires Are Biological Information Channels

Do the authors of the study think this is intelligently designed? They almost say so. Read More ›
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Photo: Decorative ironwork, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, by Jebulon / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Mankind, the Leap from Copper to Iron Was a Landmark Advance

The importance of metals, particularly iron, and the importance of the discovery of metallurgy can hardly be exaggerated. Read More ›
Margaret Sanger
Photo: Bust of Margaret Sanger, National Portrait Gallery, by Cliff, via Flickr.

Memory Purge: Eugenicist Margaret Sanger Gets Canceled by Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood seeks a way to quiet a controversy without searching its own soul. Read More ›
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Photo credit: JC Gellidon via Unsplash.

In Cells and Whole Organisms, Repair Mechanisms Imply Foresight, Not Evolution

It takes foresight to make complex tools and procedures that can restore the functions of other tools. A blind process can only see the immediate present. Read More ›
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Photo: Reichstag fire, February 27, 1933, via Wikimedia Commons.

Totalitarianism Is Darwinism Applied to Politics

Atomization is the radical isolation of each individual from every other individual. Atomization breaks the bonds that hold society in its traditional shape. Read More ›
peppered moth
Photo credit: Ben Sale, via Flickr (cropped).

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›

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