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 “Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge

Because the challenge is perennial, and because we’re not all philosophers, it’s good to come back to it from time to time. Read More ›
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When Biologists Speak to Biology Teachers, Cont.

As University of Texas political philosopher J. Budziszewski points out, some scientists modify their message on evolution when speaking to the teachers. Read More ›
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Richard Sternberg: Intelligent Design “Through the Eyes of a Platonist”

“There has to be something in addition to just the DNA sequences alone that explains development.” Read More ›
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Melanie Phillips, Pro-Sanity Journalist, on David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy 

Phillips draws a helpful parallel between intolerant leftism, in command in our culture now, and the evolutionism that similarly will tolerate no challenges. Read More ›
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How Is Darwin’s Idea Dangerous? John West Counts the Ways

Dr. West details the landscape of the cultural, moral, legal, even medical “landmarks” that have been worn away under the influence of evolutionary thinking. 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 ›
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The Dam Begins to Break: Gelernter’s Apostasy Attracts Mainstream Media Coverage

Yale computer scientist Dave Gelernter’s recent public admission that he’s giving up Darwin continues to make waves. Read More ›
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The historic Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., by Carol M. Highsmith [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem

There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing solution for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out. Read More ›
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Image source: Living Waters, via Illustra Media.

Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›

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