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Artemis
Image: Artemis, goddess of the hunt, with nymphs; a fresco from Pompeii, by ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection

The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks. Read More ›
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Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›
Area 51
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Biology as Reverse Engineering

An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51. Read More ›
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Meyer, Hedin, Dembski, Luskin Shine in World Magazine Book of the Year Awards

Dr. Meyer isn’t merely tearing down a competing, nihilistic picture of reality, but instead revealing the positive, meaningful one toward which science increasingly directs our attention. Read More ›
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Graphene hexagonal structure in motion as artificial intelligence concept. Graphene molecular grid. 3D illustration. 3D Rendering
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Flash Graphene: Born Again Plastic Is Planet-Friendly

Jim Tour is a man of faith and if you talk to him, he’s quick to credit God for blessing him and his team with these innovations. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
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Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›
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Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”

This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth. Read More ›
DNA
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Just Down the Street from ID: “Molecular Assembly Index”

"The selection of one such possibility out of the combinatorically large number of possibilities is a process that requires information." Read More ›
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Requesting a (Partial) Retraction from Darrel Falk and BioLogos

Why an avowedly Christian group would have its guns out for the God hypothesis is an interesting question from a psychological perspective. Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
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Atomic Miracles: On Denton’s Latest

Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson once declared that “man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.” Read More ›

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