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Romanticizing a Suicide “for the Earth”

The harsh fact is that Buckel’s suicide was futile. It won’t make a whit of difference toward improving the environment. Read More ›
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Unbelievable

Unbelievable: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and How to Tell the Difference

My box of books just arrived. Now you know what all of my family and best local friends are getting for Christmas this year. Read More ›
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China Turns Against “Rogue” Gene Engineer

Engaging in biotechnological and other medical research in China can free one from normal ethical concerns. Read More ›
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Photo: Levallois stone tool technology, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia

The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science. Read More ›
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Eugenics Revisited: Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies

CRISPR is the most powerful technology invented since the splitting of the atom. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Photo: Fuxianhuia protensa, by Grahbudd at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods

True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Banded iron formations, by Zhiquan Li/University of Alberta, via EurekAlert!

Newly Identified Banded Iron Formation Puts Origins Theories on Horns of a Dilemma

Many claim the Cambrian explosion was triggered by a sudden global increase in oxygen levels. Read More ›
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Photo: Obamus coronatus and Attenborites janeae, left and right, respectively, via UC Riverside.

Trackways Reported in Ediacaran Strata

Small putative trackways in Siberian rocks are giving evolutionists an opportunity to claim bilaterian animals preceded the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Richards, Medved: Sex Robots and the Future “Smart Machine” Dystopia

There are some definite “Stop the world, I want to get off” moments in the new Great Minds with Michael Medved podcast from Discovery Institute. Read More ›

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