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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger dove into population genetics. Read More ›
dawkins-test-tree-of-life
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The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Read More ›
swimming bear
Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
butterfly
Photo: Prodryas persephone, fair use and Franz Anthony via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›
Three_Wise_Monkeys,Tosho-gu_Shrine
Photo credit: Michael Maggs, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did the National Science Teaching Association Just Muzzle … Darwin?

Herman Bouma warns of what has been described as the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” but he also says he hasn’t given up. Read More ›
Scandentia
Photo: Eudaemonema webbi, after Scott 2010 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel via Unsplash.

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›
scorpion
Photo credit: Marshal Hedin from San Diego, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion

The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey. Read More ›
New Year Space Needle
intelligent design
Photo credit: Nitish Meena via Unsplash.

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2022: Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›
Mount St. Helens
Photo: Mount St. Helens, 1982, by Lyn Topinka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›

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