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Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain

An international team reasoned there had to be a purpose for sleep. In one of the largest datasets ever collected, they believe they found two functions. Read More ›
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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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Here’s How to Fight Censorship — In a “Nutshell”

The five authors, led by Thomas Y. Lo, cover the range of evidence for intelligent design in under 150 pages. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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Photo: H.P. Lovecraft in 1934, by Lucius B. Truesdell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Halloween Offering: H.P. Lovecraft Versus Theistic Evolutionists

Play the videotape of evolutionary history back again and Ken Miller imagines you get a charming brainy creature for God to play with — something lovable and admirable. Read More ›
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Image: Stump Speaking, 1886, by George Caleb Bingham, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”

A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›
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Image credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr., Eglin Air Force Base, Zombie Stomp 2015.

Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism 

Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science. Read More ›
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Photo: H.P. Lovecraft in 1934, by Lucius B. Truesdell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

H.P. Lovecraft Versus Theistic Evolutionists

My argument here is not with Kenneth Miller's science but with his imagination. Read More ›

The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy

Everything in ethics, every single weighty cultural issue I can think of, hinges on the question of biological origins. Read More ›

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