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Putting Human/Chimp Genome Comparisons in a Meaningful Context

Knowing that ENV's readers include many teachers and other educators, I thought I would offer a brief teaching idea, especially for those who have their students submit papers to SafeAssign or some similar plagiarism-detection software. Read More ›

With a Startling Candor, Oxford Scientist Admits a Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory

This just in: A rather basic question fundamental to any evolutionary account of life’s development — how “genotypes generate phenotypes,” in other words how genes build an individual creature — remains totally obscure to science.

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New Film Exposes Bigotry and Junk Science of Early Twentieth-Century Darwinists

The scientific community can be dominated by a dogmatism that subverts rational thought and an honest evaluation of the evidence. Intriguingly, this truth seems to have been recognized by none other than John Scopes later in life. Read More ›

Where the “Science-Religion” Dichotomy Came From

Most theistic evolutionists use this dichotomy to try to insulate religion from scientific and historical critiques. Of course, it also removes religion from the realm of reality. Read More ›

The Rabbi at the Scopes Trial

Clergy people and other religious folks straining to put their faith’s seal of approval on Darwin, BioLogos-style, may seem like a very contemporary sign of our own times. Actually there’s nothing new about it at all.

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As Alan Dershowitz and the New Film Alleged Remind Us, at the Heart of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial Was a Very Scary Book

"The highest type of all, the Caucasians, [are] represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America." Read More ›

How Ignorance Insulates the New Atheists

Intelligent design isn't an argument for religion but it, or something like it, would have to be true if any traditional faith is to be taken as true. Yet the New Atheists do not seriously contest the evidence that ID offers. Read More ›

North Carolina Faces Legacy of Forced Sterilization as Hollywood Releases New Film Alleged Dramatizing Impact of Eugenics in the South

As North Carolina grapples with its legacy of forced sterilization, a new feature-length film dramatizes the personal toll of eugenics as well as its connection with Darwinism. Read More ›

Butterfly Surveys Find Design, Not Darwin

As an alternative to playing "force the data into a Darwinian mold," readers may wish to take part in a butterfly survey -- just for the pleasure and value of getting outdoors and witnessing these delicate champions of biological design up close. Read More ›

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