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Image credit: Brian Gage.

Physicist Brian Miller: The Fruitful Marriage of Biology and Engineering

If biology isn’t designed, which is another way of saying "engineered," wouldn’t this state of affairs be pretty counterintuitive? Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Jason Rosenhouse, a Crude Darwinist

As a fellow mathematician, I would have liked to see from Rosenhouse a vigorous and insightful discussion of my ideas. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Robert Zunikoff, via Unsplash.

The Challenge from Jason Rosenhouse

"The response would be a lot chillier if they tried the same arguments in front of audiences with the relevant expertise." Is that so? Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Owen (left); beside him is the skeleton of a giant moa, by John van Voorst [Public domain].

Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”

These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Miikka Luotio via Unsplash.

The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›
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Image: Thomas Love Peacock, National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Coralie Mercier, via Flickr (cropped).

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›
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The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics. Read More ›

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