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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Photo credit: Anitava Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“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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Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

Michael Behe in World Magazine — “Game Over” for Darwinism

Behe was present at a “semi-secret” scientific gathering “whose theme was a specific controversial question: Did Darwinian evolution have any limitations?” Read More ›
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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Harvard Biophysicist Howard Berg, Flagellum’s Discoverer, Lives On

More than any other scientist, he brought to light the intricate biophysics occurring at the molecular scale in living organisms. Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›
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Upstairs into the Plague

Every stock boy or housekeeper or nurse is doing more to fight this pandemic than all the politicians and talking-head science grifters and tenure-track professors. Read More ›
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Cosmos 3.0 Revisits Themes of the Past, with Familiar Historical Mythmaking

At a couple of points in episode 1, Neil deGrasse Tyson employs the “Book of Nature” metaphor, but he never gives its proper historical context. It’s actually a Christian concept. Read More ›

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