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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›
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Photo: "Lysis plaques of lambda phage on E. coli bacteria," via Wikimedia Commons.

Why This Virus Is No Threat to Intelligent Design

A journal article suggests that an impressive instance of unguided evolution has been directly witnessed. Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›
Constitution
Photo credit: Mr.TinDC, via Flickr (cropped).

Luskin at The Federalist — Freedom Is Threatened; Now Will You Listen?

Critics of Darwinian theory have faced exactly such a campaign — not just recently but going back a couple of decades. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tony Webster from San Francisco, California, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sickening: Darwinian Racism Alive and Well in California

The vile trope that blacks are somehow closer to apes than other races has deep roots in Darwinian biology and social theory. Read More ›
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Photo by Ann Kathrin Bopp via Unsplash.

Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design

These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design. Read More ›
Darwin Tree
Image: Darwin’s Tree (1837), a sketch from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species, via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Tree-Like Data Refute Intelligent Design?

Computer scientist Winston Ewert applied the concept of “common design” to propose a “dependency graph” model of organismal relationships. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Richard Dawkins, by Magnus Norden (151212035) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›
Science Uprising
Image source: Discovery Institute.

Science Uprising — Returning for Season 2 on September 15

The first new episode will look at what science says about the beginning of the universe. Read More ›

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