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Marcos Eberlin
Photo: Marcos Eberlin speaking in Dallas, TX, this past Sunday night, by Chris Morgan.

Marcos Eberlin Has a Remarkable New Definition of Science

He suggests to me yet another good question to ask the next Darwinist you meet. Read More ›
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Summer Seminars
Photo: Paleontologist Günter Bechly teaching at the 2018  Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, by Daniel Reeves.

Summer Seminar Applications Due Tomorrow!

It’s cost-free! If you haven’t completed your application yet, get busy. Read More ›
Behe
Photo: Michael Behe, in Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Science Review Offers False Accusations about Chloroquine Resistance

In one paragraph Lents et al. twice cited sources they thought contradicted Behe, and twice suggested he ignored or dismissed contrary evidence. Read More ›
Utah State Capitol
Photo: Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City, by Scott Catron from Sandy, Utah, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

State Science Standards and You: Utah in Focus

While discussions of science standards are often couched in bureaucratic-sounding language, the impact of these policies can be profound. Read More ›
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Nancy Pearcey
Image: T.H. Huxley, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Nancy Pearcey on How Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Darwin and Huxley

One historian says Darwin’s naturalism came first, and “only later did he find a theory to validate his convictions.” Read More ›
Wistar Institute
Photo: Wistar Institute, by Jeffrey M. Vinocur [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Wistar: Been There, Done That

Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›
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common descent
Photo: Midge chromosomes, by Dr. Josef Reischig [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design, Common Descent, and a Qualification

I had someone ask whether, in a previous post, I meant universal common descent (UCD) or more limited common descent. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Skitterphoto, via Pixabay. 

No Escape from Theistic Evolution?

“TE thus represents a very deep sink or depression in the landscape of theological and scientific opinion.” Read More ›
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Image: “The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” c. 1817, by Caspar David Friedrich, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin’s Rhapsody

“Evolution” in its deepest sense is a foundational metaphysical commitment, not a scientific theory that one could test. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Paul Hudson, via Flickr (cropped).

Wallace Broke with Darwin Over Human Exceptionalism

Alfred Russel Wallace reasoned his way to affirmation of an “Overruling Intelligence” — intelligent design by another name — at work in the long history of life. Read More ›

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