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How Do We Decide if Something Is Well Designed or Poorly Designed?

Erika DeBenedictis's statement that “organisms are absolutely the most sophisticated machines we know of” is supported by overwhelming evidence. Read More ›
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#5 Story of 2020: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now

It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›
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Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›
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In Cell Death, a Stunning Display of Intelligent Design

Even tissues have to deal with the dead, and like everything else they do, they excel at it. The number of players involved in cell death is truly astonishing. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.” Read More ›
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Did COVID-19 Virus Evolve by Natural Selection?

Natural selection, if understood as undirected variation and differential reproductive success, is a destructive process. Read More ›
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Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›
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Remind Me Again Why We Picked Polar Bears?

The core difficulty for some scientists who read Michael Behe’s book is also the key idea at its heart. Read More ›

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