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Dembski
Photo: William Dembski, via Discovery Institute.

What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design

Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities. Read More ›
Darwins_Arch_Galapagos-2
Photo credit: refractor, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

You’ll Never Guess What Just Collapsed

Neil Thomas, a professor and member of the British Rationalist Association, was a committed Darwinist and agnostic. Read More ›
Deep Space Station 56
Photo: Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Read More ›
COVID-19
COVID-19
Image: Fusion Medical Animation, via Unsplash.

Dembski: If COVID-19 Was Designed in a Lab, Here’s How the Designers Might Cover Their Tracks

William Dembski offers insightful analysis about how we could go about determining whether the virus was designed. Read More ›
Science march
March
Photo credit: Bradhoc, via Flickr.

“Trust the Scientists”? The World Catches Up with Intelligent Design

There is no substitute for independent thinking about science, whether you hold a science PhD or not. Read More ›
water lily
Photo: A water lily from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil, copyright by G. Bechly.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›
Brian Keating
Photo: Brian Keating, by Brucelieberman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Physicist Brian Keating — God Hypothesis Is a “Page-Turner”

Most in the science world wouldn’t have the guts or the generosity or the adventurousness to praise a book about intelligent design that way. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson
Photo: Paul Nelson, by Nathan Jacobson.

Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?

An “engineering theory of evolution” might be one way of expressing what the ID proponents who participated in the CELS event were seeking. Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›

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