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Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›
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God Hypothesis: Meyer Performs “Gigaton Task,” Says Burgess of Cambridge and Bristol Universities

A gigaton, in case you wondered, is a measure of explosive power, “how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.” Read More ›
C. elegans
Photo: C. elegans, by HoPo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan

What is a body plan if there is no plan behind it? It is not a body but a blob, a formless plop of biological matter. Read More ›
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Evolution & ID in a Nutshell — Going Strong One Year On

Andrew McDiarmid and Eric Anderson discuss both the praise and criticism the book has received. Read More ›
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Photo: Red nebula and blue nebula, by NASA, ESA and STScI.

“Canceled” Physicist Eric Hedin Explores the Boundaries of Science

Robert Crowther and author Eric Hedin begin by revisiting the atheist attack on Hedin and his Ball State University course, "The Boundaries of Science." Read More ›
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Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust

Casey Luskin examines a paper which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous? Read More ›
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Photo: A hedgehog, by Gibe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›
flies in amber
Photo: Flies in amber, by Manukyan Andranik, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Read More ›
Moses with the Tables of the Law
Image: Moses with the Tables of the Law, by Guido Reni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse: Darwin’s Hedgehog Searches for Purpose

For Ruse, “Darwin is like Moses” who “led his children [himself among them] to the Promised Land but never got there himself.” Read More ›

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