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Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails
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Photo source: William Creswell, Ford Model T Tourabout, c. 1910, via Flickr.

The Designed Body, Continued: Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails

Suppose I want to build a car that’s capable of getting me from point A to point B. It minimally takes several dozen parts. Read More ›
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A hummingbird in a Vervain patch with open wings and flared tail
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Robert Wright Asks: Can Evolution Have a Higher Purpose?

He describes an interview with evolutionist William Hamilton, who developed the theory of kin selection. Read More ›
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Long exposure photography is the name given to the technique in which the camera's shutter is left open during a somewhat lengthy period of time.
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Dr. Strange Introduces the Multiverse to the Masses

The idea serves as a good plot device, but don't be fooled: fine-tuning points to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Alien Physics: Scientist Offers Novel Escape Hatch from Intelligent Design

It's a good day for some rather underwhelming attempts to evade scientific indications of ID. Read More ›

The Finely Tuned Genetic Code

Francis Crick regarded the genetic code found in nature as a "frozen accident." Yet more and more it is looking to be the case that this code is exquisitely finely tuned. Read More ›

A New Film, Alleged, Tells the Real Story of the Scopes Trial

Alleged stays true to the complicated story rather than, in the manner of Inherit the Wind, turning it into a Darwinian propagandist morality cartoon. Read More ›

On National Review Online TV, Berlinski Explains What’s “Disturbing and Moving” About the Big Bang

Are the Big Bang and the super-finetuning of the physical constants of the universe merely consistent with a Judeo-Christian understanding of creation... Read More ›

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