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Photo source: Piers Morgan Uncensored, via YouTube (screenshot).

World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines exoplanet K2-18b, by Arndt Stelter, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA/Matthias Maurer.

Is NASA in a Slump?

NASA is outsourcing a good deal now to private industry. The trouble is, it’s hard to attract creative engineers to a job supervising the work of others. Read More ›
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Photo: Harvard Museum of Natural History, by Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism, via Flickr (cropped).

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›
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Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Human Fossil Record Lacks Intermediaries

The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable. Read More ›
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Image credit: Sam Kriegman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication

Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm. Read More ›
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The Oldest Scorpion and the Decadence of Evolutionary Science

What do we learn from this case? In today’s science world it is no longer sufficient to objectively describe some nicely preserved ancient fossils. Read More ›
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Parents — Not Bioethicists — Should Decide about Baby’s Life Support

Tinslee Lewis, age 11 months, has a heart defect. The doctors claim the case is hopeless. Read More ›
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A Gift for Your Family: Dallas Conference, January 25, Offers an Inoculation Against “Scientists Say”

Many families have watched helplessly as the culture worked on our children, of a range of ages. The effects can be devastating. Read More ›
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“We Hold These Truths”: On Design of the Cosmos, Science Uprising Updates Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence could hardly be written today, not if it had to pass muster with our dominant woke corporate-media-political culture. Read More ›

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