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Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›
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Photo: Peas, by Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›
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Photo: A wet market in Myanmar, by Dan Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Medical Journal Demands “Ecological Equity”

This isn’t some outlier bioethicist or animal-rights activist being given a few pages of ink. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 6872, by NASA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/DSS.

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›
Drosophila melanogaster
Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit 

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›
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intellignet design
Photo: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, via Wikimedia Commons.

SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›
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James Tour: The Goalposts Are Racing Away from the Origin-of-Life Community

Dr. Tour explains to host Eric Metaxas why the origin-of-life community is further than ever from solving the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
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Photo: Eudaemonema webbi, after Scott 2010 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: What Does “The Science” Really Say about Faith?

This year's conference, February 17 and 18, will tackle subjects we haven't explored before, including archaeology, transgenderism, and tech addiction. Read More ›

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