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Our Highly Praised High School CHEMISTRY Class Starts August 26

As one of Ms. Marais’s students wrote to her, “I have never in my life had a teacher (besides my parents) who was as dedicated and excited as you!” Read More ›
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Now Registering: High School Chemistry with an ID Twist

But isn’t learning online a lonely experience? It can be, but not this class! Discovery Institute Academy’s High School Chemistry course is synchronous. Read More ›
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›
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How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›
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James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin to Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory

After Tour publicly quoted Cronin’s assessment of the field, Cronin responded by claiming he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek.” Read More ›
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From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity

Biology was becoming a "real" science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions. Read More ›
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Orgelian Specified Complexity

I have presented Orgel’s account of specified complexity so readers can decide which they prefer, Orgel’s or the one described in this series. Read More ›
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Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Read More ›
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Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency." Read More ›

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