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Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›
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Science Expert Slaps the “Anti-Intellectuals,” Again

I stopped by Joe the truck driver’s house to talk. Joe read Yale neurologist Steven Novella’s essay, and he didn’t think much of it. Read More ›
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China Credibly Accused of Organ-Harvesting Atrocity

A report presents shocking evidence of horrific human-rights abuses, including from witness testimony, analyses of public records, and reviewing of scholarly reports. Read More ›
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In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”

The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go. Read More ›
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But Why Not Go For It with Human Eugenics?

“It’s my opinion” is not a strong ground on which to take a moral stand. Read More ›
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Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?

I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›
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Molybdenum Is Stored in Cells by a Powered Piercing Machine

The metal element 42, molybdenum, is needed in the body in extremely small but vital amounts for enzymes to work properly. Read More ›
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Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion

A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion. Read More ›
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Photo: Amazon fires from space, by NASA Earth Observatory, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

With Amazon Fires as a Pretext, “Ecocide” Advocacy Goes Mainstream

Radical environmentalists intend to thwart human thriving in order to “save the planet.” Read More ›

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