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Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse

While others demand crackdowns on “fake news,” the Society reminds us that the history of science is one of error correction. Read More ›
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Photo: Adolf Hitler, by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Image: Galileo Galilei in 1636, by Justus Sustermans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Read More ›
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Photo: Midge chromosomes, by Dr. Josef Reischig [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

DNA Packing: One of the Supreme Wonders of Nature

The cell packs two meters of DNA into a 10-micron nucleus. How? The machinery is as intelligently designed as the genome itself. Read More ›
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The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition

Now, after two years, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture. Read More ›
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Neil Thomas: Darwin, Aquinas, and the Origin of Life

Thomas and radio host Hank Hanegraaff discuss the fossil record’s challenge to Darwinism, Gould and Eldredge’s rescue attempt, and more. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative

People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion. Read More ›
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Photo: Tomb of Charles Darwin, Westminster Abbey, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Darwin, Timing Was Everything

Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it? Read More ›
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Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›
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Photo: Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers

Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth. It produces about 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe. Read More ›

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