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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Throwback Thursday: Meyer Asks, “What Is This Theory of Intelligent Design?”

"As the story goes, intelligent design is just creationism repackaged by religious fundamentalists in order to circumvent a 1987 Supreme Court prohibition." Read More ›
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Words for Wednesday! Disentangling ID from Creationism

Yesterday on Stephen Meyer’s Facebook page we launched the new “Terminology Tuesday” feature, with a quick read about just what we mean by intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Dickinsonia</I>-like pseuodofossil, Bhimbetka cave, Retallack et al. 2021, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›
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Photo credit: mikael altemark from STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

I Got Canceled by the National Science Teaching Association

My topic was “The Top 10 Scientific Arguments Against Darwin’s Theory — According to Darwin Himself.” Read More ›
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Dialogue with ChatGPT on Intelligent Design

ChatGPT is a context-dependent natural language generator that tries to respond relevantly to textual prompts from human users to simulate conversation. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin, by Brian Gage.

Luskin: Intelligent Design’s Past, Present, and Future

Dr. Luskin also makes the case that ID is science. It’s based on physical evidence rather than religious revelation, and it makes testable predictions. Read More ›
Karl Marx
Photo: Karl Marx, by John Jabez Edwin Mayal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›
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Photo source: Stylommatophora at Wikimedia Commons., CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Muslims Should Be Natural Allies of Intelligent Design 

I have been invited to speak at many Islamic Centers throughout the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Read More ›

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