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Science, Faith, and Education: Not the Unlikely Trio You Once Thought

Note this: “religiously engaged people have become more likely to be well-educated, while atheists are less so.” Read More ›
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Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution

Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Read More ›
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Bad Synteny Arguments Claim “No Functional Reason” for Genomic Arrangements

To skip to the punchline, Kuebler says that "species as distantly related as humans and mice share a huge array of synteny blocks." Read More ›
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Fascinating Hypothesis from Weinstein: Repetitive “Junk” DNA Stores Integer Variables

This opens up a world of potential functions for repetitive DNA that open-minded scientists can consider. Read More ›
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New Study: ERVs, Once Proclaimed as Ultimate Genetic “Junk,” Are Vital for Development

Endogenous retroviruses were at one time iconic for evolution activists. The debate has progressed a lot since then. Read More ›
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Supposed Fusion Site Contains Expressed Genes, Likely Influences Neural Development

Human chromosomal fusion has often been cited as strong evidence supporting human-ape common ancestry. It’s not. Read More ›
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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture

DNA is not a static sequence to read; it is a code that builds and operates its own factory. Read More ›
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All the Evidence Points to Design, but the Credit Goes to…You Know What

One of the most objectionable aspects of modern evolutionary theory was the undeserved, unearned credit it steals. Read More ›
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The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Read More ›
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From an Eagle’s Egg, an Eagle, and Other Mysteries

Pavel Florenskij, a Russian physicist and theologian (1882-1937), imagined a field on the surfaces of icons that portray sacred images. Read More ›

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