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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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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 ›
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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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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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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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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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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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West: Louisiana Science Education Act Is Important as a “Stereotype Breaker”

It was a turning point in the effort to secure academic freedom for science teachers. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents and the Wisdom of Testicles

He thinks they should be inside the body, not outside. Read More ›

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