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Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Read More ›
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Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Read More ›
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“Pointless Bones”? Nathan Lents Bites at Stuart Burgess’s Ankle

From an engineering perspective, the bones of the ankle, in their complex and functional artistry, are very far from “pointless.” Read More ›
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embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Read More ›
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Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity. Read More ›
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Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›
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Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›
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I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon

Erika is pursuing her Master’s of Research in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation and is the creator of hundreds of punchy, entertaining YouTube videos. Read More ›
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Photo: Mexican free-tailed bats, by dizfunkshinal, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Systematics (the Relationships Between Organisms)

The re-usage of highly similar and complex parts in widely different organisms in non-treelike patterns is best explained by the action of an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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