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Eurotamandua
Photo: <I>Eurotamandua joresi</I> holotype, by Günter Bechly 2009.

Fossil Friday: Eurotamandua — Anteater or Not Even Close?

Darwinists have to appeal to the ad hoc hypothesis of convergent adaptation to similar lifestyles, which of course increases their problem. Read More ›
Jet-Propulsion-Laboratory
Photo credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, via Flickr.

Theory in Crisis? Circling the Wagons

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn compared scientific revolutions to political revolutions. Read More ›
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heartbeat
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Biologist P. Z. Meyers Denies That Life Begins at Conception

Obviously, life begins at conception. With the fusion of the sperm and the egg, a new human life begins. Read More ›
hawk eye
Photo: A hawk's eye, by abrinsky via Flickr (cropped).

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: More Guidance on Reading Jason Rosenhouse

So much in Rosenhouse’s book is careless, giving no indication that he has carefully studied and adequately comprehended my work or that of my colleagues. Read More ›
New York Stock Exchange
Image: New York Stock Exchange, by Ryan Lawler (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Optimization: A Key Concept in Intelligent Design

Portraying neo-Darwinism’s mechanisms as optimization strategies is wishful thinking. Read More ›
Croc's smile
Photo: Susisuchus anatoceps, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse Roundup

Jason Rosenhouse wrote an anti-ID book for Cambridge U. Press that our colleague, his fellow mathematician William Dembski, reviewed. Read More ›
country junction
Photo: A country junction, by Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design? Read More ›

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