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zebrafish
Photo: Zebrafish, by Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Fin-To-Limb” Paper Shows Destructive Nature of “Evo-Devo” Mutations

Because of the “dysmorphic” phenotype from a homozygous genotype, these mutant genes would be highly unlikely to become fixed in a population. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
Dead Sea
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Resurrection Genomics: Millennia-Old Palm Trees Live Again

Seeds of date palms from the Judean desert, over 2,000 years old, have sprouted and grown into healthy trees. What can we learn from their genes? Read More ›
zebrafish
Image: A zebrafish, by yourgenome, via Flickr.

Revealing Darrel Falk’s Overstatements about Limb Bones in Fish Fins

The interpretation of the results as showing “latent” genetic capabilities has teleological overtones that are compatible with intelligent design. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via En Arche Foundation.

ID as an “Argument from Ignorance”? And Other Questions for Stephen Meyer

He also answers another objection, namely that our uniform experience with designing minds is that minds are embodied in material brains. Read More ›
Michael Shermer
Photo: Michael Shermer, by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

“This Is Not Your Father’s Creationism”: Atheist Michael Shermer Meets Stephen Meyer

Every cosmology either has theistic implications, or ends up wrecking the basis for rational scientific investigation of nature. Read More ›
Royal Society entrance
intelligent design
Photo: Royal Society, entrance, by Tom Morris (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›
CELS
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›
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Image source: NASA Goddard/Jeremy Schnittman/Scott Noble.

No Wonder Atheists Resist the Big Bang

Combined with the evidence of information periodically infused into biology, the observation of a start to the universe goes beyond generic intelligent design. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darrel Falk’s Volte-Face on the Cambrian Explosion

I appreciate that Dr. Falk and his colleagues at BioLogos would like to engage in a productive “dialogue” with proponents of intelligent design. Read More ›

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