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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 ›
Thomas Henry Huxley
Image: Thomas Henry Huxley, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Survey Artificially Inflates the Percentage of Americans who “Accept Evolution”

Whether their question was chosen intentionally to inflate the degree of support for “evolution,” I cannot say. Read More ›
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racism
Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

The thread of racism in Darwinian thinking isn’t a chance thing, a mere byproduct of Charles Darwin’s personal views as a “man of his time.” 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 ›
Lupinus pilosus
Photo: Lupinus pilosus, by Zachi Evenor, cropped by User:MathKnight, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Flowering Plants and Common Descent

If this accurately reflects the argument in the primary research paper, it provides a beautiful example of common descent as axiomatically true. Read More ›
rafting dinosaurs
Image credit: Raul Martin, via EurekAlert! (no restrictions).

More Just-So Rafting Stories: This Time, Dinosaurs

In the past we’ve covered proposals from evolutionists that monkeys rafted across oceans. Why would anyone make such an outlandish proposal? Read More ›
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Image credit: Vector8DIY, via Pixabay.

In a Nutshell: Three Problems for Evolution

Biologist Robert Waltzer briefly details the engineering wonder that permits oxygen to be carried by the blood. Read More ›
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Biologist Robert Waltzer on Evolutionary Theory’s Room for Humility

Key terms in the evolution/ID debate are often misunderstood or misused. These include the word “evolution” itself. Read More ›
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Photo at top: Breast cancer cell, via National Cancer Institute; “I Think” drawing, by Charles Darwin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.” Read More ›

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