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Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Why Wallace Was Overshadowed by Darwin

Historian Michael Flannery continues his discussion with Tom Woodward about Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution. Read More ›
nebula IC 2631
Photo: Nebula IC 2631, by NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Casey Luskin: The Irony of Theistic Evolution

The Christian or Jewish theistic evolutionist actually goes a step further than arch-atheist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
Silent Night
Photo source: Screenshot from Silent Night trailer (fair use).

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›
Bust_of_Plato,_Vatican_Museum,_Rome
Photo: Plato, Vatican Museum, by Dudva, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist

The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Read More ›
1983_Minnesota_Twins_Postcards_John_Castino
Photo: John Castino in 1983, by Minnesota Twins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Evidence of a Creator Bring Hope?

John Castino's life spiraled out of control. His faith in God was based on his feelings, and so when times turned bad, he lost his faith. Read More ›
polar bear
Photo credit: Eva Blue via Unsplash.

Complex Programmed Behaviors — Intelligently Designed

Some discriminators don’t get us very far in deciding which is the better explanation between blind evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›
DI mug
Photo source: Zazzle.

Get Your Intelligently Designed Mugs!

Need a handy periodic table of elements? Or maybe three nebulae or the ghost of Cassiopeia? See them all here. Read More ›
Katydid
Photo: A katydid, by Evolution News.

Hear This: Cricket Ears Evolved Like Vertebrate Ears

These findings challenge Darwinism because species that are clearly unrelated by common ancestry employ common engineering principles. Read More ›
Pakicetus_Canada
Photo: Pakicetus, by Kevin Guertin from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Shave a Cow: Sternberg on Whale Evolution

That evolution, over a span of 11 million years or so, was once hailed as a “poster child” for the confirmation of Darwinian theory. Read More ›
shrimp
Photo credit: Giant tiger prawn, by CSIRO, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate

Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find. Read More ›

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