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Photo credit: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Memo to the Smithsonian

We are trying to bring some reasonable pressure to bear on the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and its scientifically inaccurate displays. Read More ›
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Photo: Smallpox vaccine, by James Gathany Content Providers(s): CDC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Shawn Otto and the “War on Science”

If evolutionary theory is so fundamental to medical research, why has no evolutionary biologist ever won a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine? Read More ›
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Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Read More ›
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Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›
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Image: Venetoraptor gassenae, modified from Müller et al. 2023 fig. 1, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxy ESO 174, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully.

William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet

Shatner‘s revelation may be interpreted as an environmentalist creed, but I rather see it as a poetical formulation of the fine-tuning of Earth for life. Read More ›
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Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
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spiral galaxy NGC 5037
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz.

The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion  

Self-appointed spokesmen for science often use the enormous size of the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies, as a club to beat up Christianity. Read More ›
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As Church Membership Slumps Ominously, Time for a Return of the God Hypothesis

"Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend." Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, via En Arche Foundation.

Booklist — Meyer Offers “New Discoveries to Undermine” Science Atheists

Ha, coming from the American Library Association, the dart aimed at "anti-design theorists” Dawkins, Tyson, Nye is satisfying. Read More ›

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