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Report from Australia: Sharing Design Evidence Down Under

While I packed for my July/August speaking tour of Queensland, Australia, science writer Stephen Buranyi dropped an 11-page bombshell in London. Read More ›
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Fact Check: Humans Aren’t “Evolving a New Artery”

The median artery was not caught in the act of “evolving,” either in the micro- or macro- sense. It has been caught in the act of “persisting.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›
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Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Read More ›
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Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism

Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory. Read More ›
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Can Insects Be Conscious? Let’s Look at Bees First

It is important to qualify what “consciousness” means when we are talking about bees. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›
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Photo: Titanokorys gainesi, by Jean-Bernard Caron & Joseph Moysiuk, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism

Remember when fossil hunters found Marble Canyon, a fossil bed in Canada that surpassed the Burgess Shale in extent and species richness? Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, by NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Read More ›
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Photo: Ventogyrus, by Retallack, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Examining Potential Other Trilobozoans

Last but not least, there is this gem: In 1986 strange mushroom-shaped deep-sea animals were collected offshore South Australia. Read More ›

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