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Guadalajara
Photo: Guadalajara, by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Promoting Design Arguments in Mexico and Beyond

I welcome back Dr. Brian Miller, this time to discuss his recent participation at a conference on science and faith in Guadalajara. Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form "play a significant role" in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions. Read More ›
túngara frog
Photo: A túngara frog, by Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Frogs and Fish “Count”

We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed. Read More ›
Three_Wise_Monkeys,Tosho-gu_Shrine
Photo credit: Michael Maggs, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s Wrong with Calling Intelligent Design “Anti-Evolution”?

The term “anti-evolution” has been used for decades, over and over, by untold numbers of defenders of Darwin and critics of the theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
chimp
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Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust

Casey Luskin examines a paper which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous? Read More ›
Haeckel_Orchidae
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Read More ›
Behe
Photo: Michael Behe in Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

Darwin Devolves: Another Huge Advance Against Darwinism and for Intelligent Design

This book is built on solid science. It’s going to be harder than ever for critics to spit it out just because they don’t like its taste. Read More ›
Unity and Diversity of Life
University of Utah
Image: A scene from “The Unity and Diversity of Life” via University of Utah (screen shot).

Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center. Read More ›
mouse
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Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks

Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept. Read More ›

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