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Look: On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

Eyes were quite the sudden, unanticipated gift in the history of life. Charles Darwin expected that they must have developed from simple forerunners. Read More ›
Short-beaked echidna
Photo: Short-beaked echidna, by Gunjan Pandey, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Homology

The spines of Australian echidnas and North American porcupines are remarkably similar. Read More ›
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Photo: Rafting monkey, by Jdlrobson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›
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Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Look: On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

They were quite the sudden, unanticipated gift in the history of life. Read More ›
trilobite
Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Look: On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

COVID restrictions may have put a damper on the traditional Thanksgiving celebration. But even lockdowns can't stop us from giving thanks. Read More ›
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chambered nautilus
Photo: Gaze into the eye of a chambered nautilus, © Hans Hillewaert.

Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution

The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer. Read More ›
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Looking for Things to Be Grateful For? Look No Further Than…Your Eyes

We take them for granted, but our ability to interact with the world through vision is beyond remarkable. Read More ›
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Welcome, Jerry Coyne, to the Exciting Field of Intelligent Design Research

The anatomy, embryology, and evolution of the recurrent laryngeal nerve are fascinating. Read More ›
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Eyes in a Twinkling? 

In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps. Read More ›
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At Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

In a powerful new short video, we consider the scientific evidence around the question of eye evolution. Read More ›

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