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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 18, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, Dover, education, freedom, ID the Future, intelligent design, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, law, Neo-Darwinism, Traipsing Into Evolution}

Science, Not the Law, Will Settle the Debate Over Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 18, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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I mark the 20th anniversary of the Dover verdict by beginning a two-part conversation with geologist, legal scholar, and Dover trial expert Dr. Casey Luskin. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, blood clots, Bradley Monton, Darwin’s Black Box, David Berlinski, dualism, education, evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Judge John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Laurence Moran, Manyuan Long, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education, peer-reviewed publications, puffer fish, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, Ten Myths About Dover, The Origin of Species, Tyler Hampton, University of Kentucky, William Dembski, word salad}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 4, “The Dover Ruling Refuted Intelligent Design”

_{Casey Luskin
December 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Scientific Reasoning

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Expert witnesses like biochemist Michael Behe and microbiologist Scott Minnich testified about how irreducible complexity makes a positive case for design. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
December 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, intelligent design, John West, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, National Center for Science Education, Ohio State Board of Education, public schools, Richard Thompson, Seth Cooper, Stephen Meyer, teachers, Ten Myths About Dover}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 5, “Discovery Institute Supported Dover School Board Policy”

_{Sarah Chaffee
December 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Both Judge John E. Jones and the media have promoted the myth that Discovery was somehow behind the events that sparked the case. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, articles, beginning, Big Bang, books, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Murray, earthquake, Elon Musk, floods, intelligent design, John West, Larry Sanger, machinery, megaphone, physics, pumps, Research, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Seattle, social media, Stephen Meyer, Steve Buri, universe, Wikipedia, writing}

Charles Murray, Among Others, Shows the Impact of Our Work

_{David Klinghoffer
December 16, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As Stephen Meyer, John West, Steve Buri, and others got up and spoke, there was an odd shaking in the floor and windows. Read More ›

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Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, animals, biologists, biology, chemists, clades, Current Biology, deuterostomes, evolution, evolutionary theory, Flock of Dodos, hydrogen, impact factor, physicists, Research, science journals, University College London}

Goodbye to a Basic Clade That Has Been with Us Since 1908?

_{Science and Culture
December 16, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

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It is hard — okay, impossible — to keep up with the number of frankly stunning revisions of core evolutionary theory these days. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antiviral defense, cars, CasPEDIA, classes, color, CRISPR, CRISPR–Cas, DNA, evolution, gene diagrams, genome, genome engineering, intelligent design, Nature Microbiology, phylogenetic trees, phylogeny, proteins, sequence differences, shape, shared ancestry, subtypes, t-shirts, thread, types, viruses}

CRISPR’s Long Tail of Wonder: Too Many Solutions, Too Little Time

_{Emily Reeves
December 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The implication: such a significant amount of diversity raises a challenge for unguided evolutionary mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, Black’s Law Dictionary, Casey Luskin, David dewolf, evolution, intelligent design, Jay Wexler, John West, Judge John Jones, Judgment Day, judicial activism, judicial authority, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Montana Law Review, religion, scientific community, Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Supreme Court, Ten Myths About Dover, The Pennsylvania Lawyer, Time Magazine, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 6, “Judge Jones, No Activist, Stayed Strictly Within Authority”

_{Sarah Chaffee
December 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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Federal judges are to decide constitutional questions. Deciding what is and is not science is a matter for philosophers of science. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Barbara Forrest, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Cicero, creationism, creator, David dewolf, Edwards v. Aguillard, Eugenie Scott, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, F. C. S. Schiller, Fred Hoyle, intelligent agent, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John E. Jones, John Haught, John West, Jonathan Witt, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, molecular machines, New York Times, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, philosophy, religion, Richard Dawkins, scientific method, Scott Minnich, Supreme Court, Ten Myths About Dover, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski, William Paley}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, astrology, Discovery Institute, Galileo Galilei, John E. Jones, John Wise, Judgment Day, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Media Matters, Michael Behe, New Scientist, PBS, science, Southern Methodist University, supernatural, Ten Myths About Dover, U.S. National Academy of Science, undistributed middle}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 8, “Behe Admitted that ID Is No More Scientific than Astrology”

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Yes, that’s Michael Behe’s definition of science. In its entirety. Do you see anything about astrology or the supernatural there? I don't. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithm, Australia, biological complexity, Board of Trustees, Bondi Beach, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, Christian Nationalism, Christians, colleagues, conservatives, cosmos, Discovery Institute, faith, insinuation, Jews, John West, leadership, social media, Stephen Meyer, think tank, Tucker Carlson}

At a Wrenching Time, My Gratitude for Discovery’s Leadership

_{David Klinghoffer
December 15, 2025

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It was last month that another think tank — with a lot of great people there — split down the middle over the organization’s partnership with Tucker Carlson. Read More ›