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Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

Evolutionism is really more of a paradigm or methodology than a theory. For its supporters, the important thing is that it was due to natural causes. Read More ›
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Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›
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Nobel Prize vs. the Peppered Myth

Winners of the Nobel Prize this year have undercut the Darwinian explanation for industrial melanism. Read More ›
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Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Read More ›
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Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box

Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics. Read More ›
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Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›
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Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes

There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes. Read More ›
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Mutation

According to evolutionary biologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith, the idea that DNA contains all the information needed to make an organism “is simply false.” Read More ›
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Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism

Remember when fossil hunters found Marble Canyon, a fossil bed in Canada that surpassed the Burgess Shale in extent and species richness? Read More ›
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DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another

It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage. Read More ›

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