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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?

Biologist Michael Denton's structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things. Read More ›
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To Create Functional Proteins,  Evolution Would Need a Miracle

Theologian Rope Kojonen claims that God designed the laws of nature, which then gave rise to “fine-tuned” preconditions and smooth fitness landscapes. Read More ›
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? First Check the Data

Is mainstream evolutionary theory compatible with a biology-based argument for intelligent design? Theologian Rope Kojonen believes that it is. Read More ›
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Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions 

The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›
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A First Couple? Here’s the Backstory

Could humanity have had its origin in a first pair, or did it have to come from a population of at least several thousand? Read More ›
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#4 of Our Top Stories of 2018: A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments

A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›
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Andreas Wagner: Genetic Regulation Drives Evolutionary Change

In a seemingly infinite hall of mirrors, monumental assertions are casually made and immediately followed by citations that simply do the same thing. Read More ›
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Is There a First Human Couple in Our Past? New Evidence and Arguments

A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›

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