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Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. Read More ›
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Here We Go Again: For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer

You may have all the ingredients you want, in the right quantities, but without a builder, nothing functionally complex will emerge. Read More ›
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Catholicism and “Evolution,” Whatever That Means

In the book review by Stephen Barr, I count 66 mentions of “evolution” and not one of “Darwinian evolution.” Read More ›
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New Paper Argues for the “Unreasonable Likelihood of Being”

How long did life have to get started? Endres notes that life on earth could not have emerged until after two early global sterilizing impacts. Read More ›
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At a Wrenching Time, My Gratitude for Discovery’s Leadership

It was last month that another think tank — with a lot of great people there — split down the middle over the organization’s partnership with Tucker Carlson. Read More ›
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism

Casey Luskin addresses the inadequacy of natural selection and random mutation to generate biological complexity. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›
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Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›
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Doug Axe on Darwinian Evolution: “One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Scientific Theories”

Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture. Read More ›

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