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Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›
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Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name)

The critics, including Ethan Siegel, appear to see Meyer much like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Read More ›
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Image: Three-spine stickleback, by Alexander Francis Lydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3

The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe. Read More ›
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Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?

Biologist Jonathan Wells contends that modern evolutionary theory is a current instance of a dominant paradigm in crisis. Read More ›
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cichlid fish
Photo: Cichlid fish, by Russell D. Fernald and Sabrina S. Burmeister / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Read More ›
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Melissa Cain Travis: Explaining the Uncanny “Cosmic Resonance” of Mathematics

Travis considers the history of Western thinking from Pythagoras and the pre-Socratic philosophers to Philo of Alexandria and onward. Read More ›
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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›
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Photo: A labrid fish, by laszlo-photo, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say. Read More ›
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Heretic
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Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›

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