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Event, May 13: The Heavens Declare

Paul Nelson and Brian DeVries will give special attention to how humans are able to detect design in nature. Read More ›
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Help Us Mentor the Next Generation of Intelligent Design Scientists and Scholars

Emily Reeves, a PhD staff scientist at Discovery Institute, has mentored an Ivy League postdoc in the field of molecular biology for the past five years. Read More ›
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A Needed Protest Against “AI Slop” and AI “Word Vomit”

It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Read More ›
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A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

First to speak is Dr. John West, Managing Director of the CSC. Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant AND understandable. Read More ›
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Standing O for Jerry Coyne?

Using his power and the prestige brand of his university to bully someone like Eric Hedin was nothing less than loathsome. Read More ›
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Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Read More ›
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Latest — and Largest — Intelligent Design Education Day Explores “Creepy Crawly Complexity”

Talks by three different scientists showcased the astonishing abundance, diversity, and complexity of insects, spiders, and worms. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns”

Richard Sternberg regretted, citing Plato, that “words are very poor containers for what one wants to say” about a friend like Jonathan. Read More ›
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Dismantling the Icons of Evolution

I invited Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design’s “Galileo Figure”

Tom Woodward calls Jonathan Wells a “Galileo figure” in intelligent design’s connection with epigenetics. Read More ›

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