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The Miracle of Man
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Read More ›
cat and dog
Photo credit: Louis-Philippe Poitras, via Unsplash.

Behe Debates the Limits of Darwinian Evolution

Any evolution beyond the level of genus — for instance, the separate families containing cats and dogs — cannot be achieved through mindless Darwinian mechanisms. Read More ›
Vatican
Photo: Vatican, by Luc Mercelis, via Flickr (cropped).

Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Read More ›
Xiaotingia
Photo: Xiaotingia, by Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
Hoatzin
Photo credit: Kate from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›
elephant shrew
Photo: A round-eared elephant shrew, by Vassil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”

This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
retina
Photo: Human retina, by rdowns via Pixabay.

Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›
Rafting monkey
Photo: Rafting monkey, by Jdlrobson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Stian Martinsen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory. Read More ›
Chrismooreia-michaelbehei
Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, a fossil dragonfly species, 191 million years old, named in honor of ID scientist Michael Behe, by Günter Bechly.

Günter Bechly: Why the Fossil Record Points to Intelligent Design

He covers how “a lightbulb went on” for him about Darwinism, the fatal waiting time problem, why the ballyhooed extended synthesis fails to save the day for evolution, and more. Read More ›

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