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Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›
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What Are Science and Faith — And Are They Compatible?

Atheists might say that if Christian scientists understood the full implications of science, they would see that their Christian faith is unsustainable. Read More ›
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Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Read More ›
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The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration 

The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Read More ›
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Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Read More ›
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Dawkins: A “Perfect Hierarchy” in the Tree of Life?

The “hierarchy” that Dawkins is referring to in the video is the tree of life that evolutionary biologists can generate. Read More ›
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An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›
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Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›
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Molecular Machine Safari

Take a tour of molecular machines working in the cell and see what new things scientists have found out about them. Read More ›
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Answering an Objection: “You Can’t Measure Intelligent Design”

We test intelligent design in the same way that we test all historical scientific theories. Read More ›

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