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Mama Bear: Melissa Travis on Parenting, Education, and the Reasons 2019 Conference

Professor Travis has made it her mission to help parents — especially mothers — navigate tough questions about origins and beliefs. Read More ›
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Richards: False Prophecies of a Robotic Future Are Based on a False Darwinian Premise

The rejoinder to this way of thinking, which Jay Richards expresses with wonderful concision, is that humans possess a unique capacity forever setting us apart from machines. Read More ›
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Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

This finding fits Michael Behe’s book Darwin Devolves perfectly. It’s easier to throw cargo overboard than to create it. Read More ›
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Photo: Morning aboard the International Space Station, via NASA.

Melissa Cain Travis: The Argument from the Existence of Science

Professor Travis is among the speakers at next month’s conference, co-sponsored by our Houston Chapter, Reasons 2019. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Did these three undergrads, working with postdoc Steven Bruckbauer, watch “evolution happen in real time”? By Robin Davies, via University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves

We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function. Read More ›
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Photo: Rutgers University School of Law, by Umdet [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Rutgers University Law Journal Advocates “Intelligence-Based Alternatives” to Darwinism

May a teacher let students know what evolutionary biologists had to say about their own field at the November 2016 Royal Society meeting? Read More ›
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Photo: A monkey wrench, by Andrew Plumb, via Flickr(cropped). 

Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”

It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, where some theories hypothesize that life originated, by NOAA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong? 

There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›
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A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

“At some point during this talk, I felt a gear turn in my head.” Read More ›

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