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Photo: Lab rats, by Jason Snyder from Washington, DC, United States [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Read More ›
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Photo: The Jurassic seed fern Sagenopteris belongs to the extinct gymnosperm clade Caytoniales, which is believed to be the closest relative of flowering plants, via Wikimedia.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›
Erika DeBenedictis
Photo: Erika DeBenedictis, via YouTube (screenshot).

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
Macaca fascicularis
Photo: Macaca fascicularis, by kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
Cambrian animal phyla
Image: Cambrian animal phyla, by CNX OpenStax, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by J. Nathan Matias, via Flickr (cropped).

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Read More ›
Eric Hedin
Photo: Eric Hedin, by Tina Hedin.

Today, “Canceled” Scientist Eric Hedin Gets His Voice Back

Cancel culture had no name in 2013. It has since become one of the major worries in contemporary life. Read More ›
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Image source: IntelligentDesign.Org.

For Darwin Day, Website Resists Disinformation Campaign Against Intelligent Design

If you like the idea of living in China, then the government using the Internet to tell everyone what to believe should sound like just the ticket. Read More ›

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