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Macaca fascicularis
Photo: Macaca fascicularis, by kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
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Scientists Succeed in Creating Mouse Artificial Wombs

This technology is still a long time from the potential for human application, but it presents issues we need to address now. Read More ›
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Examining Causes of Gender Dysphoria

In recent years, there has been increased interest in a possible connection between gender dysphoria and autism. Read More ›
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Photo: Northwest Crown Fire Experiment, by permission of the USDA Forest Service / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).

Fire and Fitness: A Summary of the Evidence

Surely there could not be an equivalent ensemble of fitness in nature for some other type of life. Read More ›
COVID-19
COVID-19
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There’s Implicit ID Research on COVID-19; What About Explicit?

The reason for the relative silence on the origin of COVID by explicit ID scientists is simple. Read More ›
peppered moth
Photo credit: Ben Sale, via Flickr (cropped).

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›
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The Myth of Precambrian Sponges

Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›
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Big Fertility Is Fast Becoming a Moral Hazard

This “experiment” was very wrong on at least four fronts. First, it created human life for the purpose of experimenting upon it. Read More ›
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Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
Genetic Engineering
Profiteers
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Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed. Read More ›

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