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Star Trek
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Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›
Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter.

Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, John Lennox: The Evidence for Design Is Growing

In a conversation in Fiesole, Italy, three leading thinkers explore the growing problems with modern evolutionary theory and the increasing evidence for design. Read More ›
Thomas Aquinas
Thomists
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.design.

Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Read More ›
crocodile eye
Photo: A crocodile's eye, by Alias 0591 from the Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Does the Crocodile Hold Its Breath So Long?

The actress Kate Winslet can hold her breath for seven and a quarter minutes. A crocodile, though, can hold his breath for hours. Read More ›
depression
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NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›
atmosphere
Photo credit: NASA.

Physicist Eric Hedin Probes the Limits of Science

Are we free to look beyond materialism for answers to important scientific questions? Read More ›
Kate_Winslet_TIFF_2015
Photo: Kate Winslet, by GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Breath-Holding, Kate Winslet and a Croc Are Champions

Kate Winslet, and other actors, for the sake of “the newest frontier in blockbuster moviemaking” are learning to hold their breath for several minutes. Read More ›
Ann Gauger
generosity
Photo: Ann Gauger in "The Problem with Theistic Evolution," via Crossway.

Grand Design: Biologist Ann Gauger Discusses the Catholic Case for ID

Gauger gives a summary of the book’, tells how she found her way into the intelligent design fold, and explains why Catholics should reject evolutionary theory. Read More ›
trilobite
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Read More ›
flagellum
irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Uncommon Descent — A Farewell and Remembrance

I didn’t know what to expect from the blog when it started, but it quickly developed a following that was gratifying to see. Read More ›

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