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Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Misconceptions about Misconceptions: Examining a Citation of My Work

The citation is to one of my earliest writings on the topic of human origins, an article I published in an old ID journal. Read More ›
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The Solution to Fake News about Intelligent Design

Just a few days ago, a former atheist endorsed Evolution News as the “best place” to read about topics relating to science, design, Darwinism, and faith. Read More ›
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The Three Graces, by Raphael
The Three Graces, by Raphael / Public domain.

Doctor’s Diary: No “Butts” About It

An anthropologist writes that the evolution of bipedal-walking primates was primarily caused by the shifting of select bones and muscles in the pelvis. Read More ›
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An illustration from "The Country of the Blind," by Claude Allin Shepperson / Public domain.

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind

Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Read More ›
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Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn’t About Evolution

We transcend the strictly material forces that spur natural selection. We, alone in the known universe, are moral beings. Read More ›
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Selective focus on a tall, dark lamp post during a snow storm in the pacific northwest woodland
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C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions

Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for? Read More ›
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What’s Up with the Science Uprising Mask?

Scanning down through the comments section under his post, I noticed a puzzled remark from one reader. Read More ›
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Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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How Did Religion “Evolve”?

It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion. Read More ›

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