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Fossil Friday:  An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton. Read More ›
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“Notions” About Metamorphosis Fall Short of Scientific Explanations

Saying that a mathematical model “supports the notion” of how metamorphosis evolved should not grace the pages of an esteemed scientific journal. Read More ›
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Richard Dawkins, the Unlikely Evangelist

As a recent book of essays demonstrates, the once much-vaunted new atheism spurred many thinking people to become Christians. Read More ›
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Will Colorado Permit Elephants to Sue?

Many law schools teach courses in animal rights, training lawyers for the day the courtroom door opens to animals. Read More ›
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Arguing About Taste with Large Language Models

When Large Language Models aspire to the literary genius of James Joyce, what could go wrong? Read More ›
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Progress Since the Sternberg Smithsonian Saga 20 Years Ago

For decades, opponents of intelligent design derided the theory as unscientific because it hadn’t been published in peer-reviewed science journals. Read More ›
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Control Systems in Vertebrate Limbs Further Demonstrate that They Were Designed

Even if one limb suddenly transformed into another, the new limb would prove useless until its control system was entirely reengineered. Read More ›
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Photo: Amur tiger, by Anil Öztas, FALCC-BY-NC-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Do Animals Really “Take Revenge”?

The true tale of an Amur tiger hunting down and killing his hunter in 1997 is among the best attested of these stories. Read More ›
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With Yet More Politics and Ideology, Top Science Journal Labors to Sink Its Own Reputation

Now, in the mushiest softball Q&A one can imagine, they are boosting an anti-Israel protester. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Read More ›

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