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Photo: Mount St. Helens, 1982, by Lyn Topinka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›
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Photo: Golden eagle, by Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Neanderthals Had a Thing for Eagles — And Hyenas

However, Neanderthals are not thought, based on current evidence, to have had much interest in dogs. Read More ›

2022 YouTube Film Festival: Long Story Short on Whale Evolution

Bears turning into whales? Scientists today disagree with Darwin, instead claiming that other land animals were the real precursors to today’s whales. Read More ›
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Watch: Michael Behe Corrects Darwin’s Detour with a Cumulative Case for Intelligent Design

For thousands of years, the design of life was acknowledged by scientists and non-scientists, philosophers and physicians, religious and non-religious. Read More ›
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Whale Evolution — Believe It or Not? Register by Thursday for Webinar with Sternberg and Wells!

Prominent atheist biologist Jerry Coyne calls whale fossils “one of our best examples of an evolutionary transition.” Read More ›
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Zoom Webinar with Wells, Sternberg on Whale Evolution; Join Us on April 23!

Charles Darwin wrote: “I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits…” Read More ›
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From Chernobyl Disaster Site, a Boost for Intelligent Design 

The lesson from Chernobyl is this: radiation kills, but life comes prepared to defend itself.  Read More ›
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From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells on the “Fairy Tale” of Whale Evolution

Three massive acts of exquisitely complex re-engineering would be required, far beyond the reach of unguided natural processes. Read More ›

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