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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe). Read More ›
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New Book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Answers Key Questions on Intelligent Design

"If anyone thinks that the study of science and faith should be disparate disciplines, here are more than 656 reasons why they’re wrong." Read More ›
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Why This Virus Is No Threat to Intelligent Design

A journal article suggests that an impressive instance of unguided evolution has been directly witnessed. Read More ›
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Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›
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RNA World in a World of Hurt

Cornelius Hunter and Eric Anderson spotlight admissions in scientific publications that it’s time to move on from the cherished but embattled RNA World. Read More ›
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Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Read More ›
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Determinism: “An Irrational Rejection of Evidence”

German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder takes even human choices to be merely an illusory experience. Read More ›
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Science as Oracle — “Where It Gets Weird”

The ancients had their oracles, people claiming to speak in the name of the gods — this, by divination. Read More ›
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Seeking a Way Around RNA World, New Study Only Increases Perplexity of Abiogenesis

The origin of biological information is a mystery not so much highlighted by a comparison with software as downplayed by it. Read More ›
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Cornelius Hunter: More “Junk” DNA Is Crucial

Evolutionary theory predicts lots of “Darwinian detritus” that does nothing for organisms. That prediction keeps coming up false. Read More ›

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