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Taking Stock at Year’s End

To return to the beginning: at Phil Johnson’s memorial service we spoke about first and second wave ID advocates. Read More ›
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Human Origins: Not a Simple Question

Is this proof of Adam and Eve? Far from it. It merely shows they might be possible. This model is scientific and as such is falsifiable. Read More ›
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Photo: Phillip E. Johnson, “How Darwinists Think — Lecture and Q&A,” via YouTube (screenshot).

More on Christianity Today and Phillip Johnson’s Legacy in Science Education and Law

If he could speak to us now, Johnson might remark that his 2019 obituary shows how times have changed — and not necessarily for the better. Read More ›
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Bible. Old Testament. Creation. Genesis. God created Adam and Eve and provided all they needed in the Garden of Eden.
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“Unique Human Origins”: Explained

One scenario involves a first human pair created from scratch — Adam and Eve, as many traditional religious believers would have it. Read More ›
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From Ann Gauger and Ola Hössjer, a New Standard for the Science of a “First Couple”

Their scrupulous work found that Jerry Coyne and others, in bullying Christians and Jews on how “we can dismiss a physical Adam and Eve with near scientific certainty,” were in reality poorly supported. Read More ›
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More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›
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A First Couple? Here’s the Backstory

Could humanity have had its origin in a first pair, or did it have to come from a population of at least several thousand? Read More ›
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New BIO-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come from Two

New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports. Read More ›
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Photo: Salmonella enterica, by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design

The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Photo: Chinese Han characters, by Michael Coghlan, via Flickr (cropped).

Listen: Gauger on the Limits of Evolutionary Optimization

Biologist Ann Gauger explains how she and Douglas Axe tested popular hypotheses for protein origins. Read More ›

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