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Haeckel's Embryos
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So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope

When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley. Read More ›
DNA
intelligent design
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Oxford Journal: “The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over ”

Since project ENCODE provoked outrage among evolutionary biologists over a decade ago, there has been a concerted campaign to defend the notion of junk DNA. Read More ›
Science Uprising
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Meyer: No Escape from a Mind Behind the Universe

Cosmologists of an atheist disposition have been seeking an escape hatch from the implications of the Big Bang. Read More ›
Perseid Meteor Shower
Photo: Perseid Meteor Shower, by NASA/Bill Ingalls.

New Book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Answers Key Questions on Intelligent Design

"If anyone thinks that the study of science and faith should be disparate disciplines, here are more than 656 reasons why they’re wrong." Read More ›
Francis-Collins
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Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›
zombies-are-coming
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Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science

Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point. Read More ›
Small Magellanic Cloud
Photo: Small Magellanic Cloud, by NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA).

Egnor: Weak Anthropic Principle Is Merely a Tautology

The fine-tuning of the universe from the Big Bang, astounding in its precision, either requires an explanation, presumably intelligent design, or it doesn’t. Read More ›
Andrew Klavan
Photo: Andrew Klavan, by Embutler, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Stuck in the Late 19th Century”: Andrew Klavan, Stephen Meyer on Scientific Atheism

Darwin, Marx, and Freud are largely responsible for elaborating the outlook that sought to replace the Western theistic view. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin in South Africa.

Casey Luskin Is a Hit on Coast to Coast

A lady from Spokane advanced her view that God originated by hatching from a dinosaur egg. Read More ›
fruit fly
Photo: A fruit fly, by Macroscopic Solutions, via Flickr.

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›

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