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Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson
Photo: Phillip E. Johnson, debating evolutionist Will Provine at Stanford University in 1994, via YouTube (screenshot).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Phil Johnson: The Seats Will Be Full

He gathered around him people with fresh takes, risk takers, even renegades, scientists who believed that evolution was an incomplete explanation for the patterns of life. Read More ›
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Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”

A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is. Read More ›
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Design Everywhere: When Maggots Fly, and More

Believe it or not, there are amazing discoveries being made that owe nothing to Darwin, at least not explicitly. Read More ›
Hacking the Cosmos
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh.

New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design

According to Halsmer, engineering involves “the creative use of resources and ingenuity to accomplish a purpose or solve a problem.” It does so by creating “affordances.” Read More ›
African savannah in Serengeti
Sunset in savannah of Africa with acacia trees, Safari in Serengeti of Tanzania
Image Credit: Simon Dannhauer - Adobe Stock

Upright Walking and African Witch Doctors

In seeking to explain what makes humans exceptional, current evolutionists convert guesswork into a methodology, as humans did for long ages in the pre-scientific past. Read More ›
Science Uprising
June

Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3

The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. Read More ›
Michael Behe
Photo: Michael Behe, a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Muller Two-Step Model: A Refutation of Behe on Irreducible Complexity?

Our responses to the Muller two-step have been around for a long time; it would be nice if ID critics would recognize and perhaps answer them. Read More ›
Metaxas Carlson
Darwinist
Photo: Tucker Carlson and Eric Metaxas on Tucker Carlson Tonight, via Real Clear Politics (screen shot).

Evolutionist Responds to Eric Metaxas on the “Meaning” Question

“If you actually believe we evolved out of the primordial soup and through happenstance got here, by accident, then our lives literally have no meaning.” Read More ›
bacteria
bacteria
Photo: A petri dish, by U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution and Bacteria — In the Classroom

Instead of relying on their textbooks, students are learning about evolution by watching bacteria grow and change. Read More ›
Wesley Smith
Texas

Before Texas Senate Committee, Smith Testifies on Medical Coercion Law, “Worst in the U.S.”

Thank you to Wesley J. Smith for fighting what’s often a very lonely fight against the increasingly dehumanizing tendency in contemporary medicine. Read More ›

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