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Photo credit: Yves Bousquet, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›
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Photo: Chilesaurus diegosarezi, by ケラトプスユウタ, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›
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Photo: Massimo Pigliucci, by Tim Deschaumes, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out

One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled. Read More ›
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Image: Examination of a Witch, by T. H. Matteson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Will Scientists Now Consider Occult as Science?

“My truth” or (for grammatical convenience) “private truth” is making serious headway against public truth. Read More ›
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Search for Habitable Planets Is a Design Detection Exercise

The extent of habitable space within all space can serve as a determinant of the plausibility of naturalism vs intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: Galileo Galilei in 1636, by Justus Sustermans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis in the Elitist’s Eye

The secularist is right to feel uncomfortable as he mouths a theistic creed. Theists, for their part, should respect this reluctance. Read More ›
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A life-size C.S Lewis statue called The Searcher.

Science, Scientism, and Magic

The scientific culture of the 19th and early 20th century produced three great wizards — Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. Read More ›
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David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism? Read More ›

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