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Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›
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Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›
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Image: Poison pen letter, by Jacques Gruet (?-1547), Genève, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century. Read More ›
New Caledonian crow
Image: New Caledonian crow, by John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Read More ›
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Hawking zero gravity
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Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›
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Image credit: David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-042.

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›
L0003411 Mary Augusta, Mrs. Humphry Ward. Photograph by Barraud.
Photo: Mrs. Humphry Ward, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Bijan Nemati: What the James Webb Telescope May Discover

These glimpses may confirm our most current ideas of early cosmic history and galaxy formation, or turn them on their head. Read More ›
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Photo: Queen Victoria, by Alexander Bassano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith 

Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing. Read More ›
Richard Spencer
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Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›

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