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Intelligent Design in Unlovable Creatures

Between cells and humans, there are millions of "ugly duckling" species that are beautiful in their own way. Read More ›
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›
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Photo: A woolly monkey, by Evgenia Kononova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›
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Image credit: Brian Gage.

CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches

In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days. Read More ›
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Douglas Axe
Photo: The Origin of Species, first edition, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Read More ›
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Frontiers of ID: Microscopic Ecologies

Public health lecturer James Hamblin at Yale decided to go without showers — for five years! Read More ›

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