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Douglas Axe
Douglas Axe
Photo: Douglas Axe, in a scene from the series Science Uprising “DNA: The Programmer.”

Douglas Axe on the Human Element in Science

On the radio with Eric Metaxas, Dr. Axe explains how he lost his research position in Cambridge over the evolution controversy. Read More ›
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A Snail as Fast as a Bullet, and Other Darwin-Defying Marvels

You could fill up a web publication’s daily coverage just with new wonders from the world of life. Would that be expected given Darwinian assumptions? Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben, via NASA. 

NASA’s Parker Probe Kisses the Sun — And Rightly So

It’s thanks only to the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of nature that we live in a universe awash in radiation from this tiny swath of the electromagnetic spectrum — the life-permitting swath. Read More ›
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Photo: Down House, home of Charles Darwin, by Mario Modesto [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Faith and Fetish

Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post. Read More ›
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Image: By Aurelien Guichard from London, United Kingdom (changes by Rabanus Flavus) (File:St. Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle (1).jpg) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

Royal Wedding Sermon Goes Fire-Maker

Did Rev. Curry read Michael Denton? Maybe not, but it sure sounds like it. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ivkohouska, via Pixabay.

Eyes in a Twinkling? 

In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps. Read More ›
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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, by Günter Bechly, Biologic Institute, Redmond, WA.

New Species of Fossil Dragonfly Named for ID Proponent Michael Behe

The paradigm of cladistic classification based on assumed common ancestry should be reconsidered in favor of a traditional phenetic classification based on maximum similarity. Read More ›
Thomas Jefferson
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Image: Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand

I've been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference. Read More ›
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Charlie Gard
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With the Charlie Gard Case, Culture of Death Tightens Its Grip in England

The child was born with a mitochondrial disorder that causes brain damage and eventually death. Read More ›

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