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Carrie and Emma Buck
Photo: Carrie Buck (at left) with Emma Buck in 1924, by Arthur Estabrook, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Read More ›
crying baby
Photo credit: StockSnap via Pixabay.

Depravity: California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect

Okay. Let’s be careful. Perhaps that wording just applies to preborn babies or the right not to get pregnant at all. Read More ›
kinesin
Image: Kinesin, via Discovery Institute.

Walking Wonder: More to Appreciate About Kinesin, the “Workhorse of the Cell”

In our video, this molecular motor appears to walk slowly and deliberately, but remember: the narrator says it can take a hundred steps a second. Read More ›
multiverse
Image credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design

The multiverse concept posits the existence of many other universes, each with different sets of physical parameters. Read More ›
Palawan Water Monitor Lizard
Photo: Palawan Water Monitor Lizard, by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Read More ›
Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism and the “So What?” Question: John West’s Darwin Day in America

At first glance, it might seem that whether we believe in evolution as a purely material, unguided process should make no difference to values or morality. Read More ›
Luskin Shapiro
Image source: Unbelievable? via YouTube (screenshot).

“Is Intelligent Design Advancing?” Watch the Debate with Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Now

At about 54 minutes in, Shapiro delivers a highly caricatured portrait of intelligent design, as an argument from amazement. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
materialists
Photo: Lawrence Krauss, in Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

These evasions include the steady state model, the idea of an eternal cyclical universe, and the string landscape model. Read More ›
Rosetta Stone
Photo: The Rosetta Stone, by ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Logic of Design Detection

Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind. Read More ›

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