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Jonathan-Wells
Photo: Jonathan Wells, by Brian Gage.

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 ›
cichlid fish
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 ›
Pythagoras
Image: Pythagoras, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

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 ›
Coris_gaimard_real
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 ›
human eye
Heretic
Photo credit: Engin_Akyurt, via Pixabay.

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 ›
chimp
Photo credit: Daniel Hansen via Unsplash.

Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Now!

Properly considered, we are told, human beings are just a species of chimpanzee anyway. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz.

The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion  

Self-appointed spokesmen for science often use the enormous size of the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies, as a club to beat up Christianity. Read More ›
Science Uprising
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Tomorrow: New Science Uprising Episode on Human Origins

A view open to intelligent design can follow the evidence freely. It does not require a particular narrative of how humanity arose. Read More ›
MolecubesInMotion
Photo: Molecubes, via Wikipedia.

Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication

All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them. Read More ›

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