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Newton by Blake
Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›
Proboscidea
Photo: Deinotherium, composite from Wikimedia, Concavenator CC BY-SA 4.0, HeMei CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea

Is this what Darwinism would predict? Of course not! Is it instead what intelligent design theory would predict? Indeed it is. Read More ›
Hyraxes
Photo: Titanohyrax andrewsi, Oligocene, Egypt, after Tabuce 2016 fig. 2, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences. Read More ›
Macroscelidea
Photo: <I>Namasengi mockeae</I>, mandible, Eocene, Namibia, from fig. 11 in Senut & Pickford 2021, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›
Aardvarks
Photo: Amphiorycteropus gaudryi, Miocene Greece, modified after Koufos 2022 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›
Phiomicetus anubis
Image credit: Robert W. Booessenecker, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale”

Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales. Read More ›
March for Science
Photo: March for Science, by Vlad Tchompalov via Unsplash.

Don’t Forget Scientific Fraud

“I’ve done the research. I have the facts.” Thus said two people to me on successive days over the weekend, in almost identical words. Read More ›
ProofsofGod cover

ID Made Sassy: A New Book for Young People

Douglas Ell's concept is a dialogue between Doubt and Reason, who sass each other merrily. Read More ›
Galen-and-Hippocrates

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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