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Cold Water on “Dire Wolves”

"These are not dire wolves," says evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin. "These are gray wolves with 20 edited genes." Read More ›
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Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›
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Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”

Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›
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Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion

In three papers, scientists babble about irrelevant details but ignore the main question: the origin of new genetic information for new body plans and organs. Read More ›
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New Research: Stuart Burgess Demonstrates the Exquisite Engineering of Human Limbs

Burgess’s research represents yet another nail in the coffin of the standard evolutionary model. Read More ›
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Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›
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Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Read More ›
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New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›

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