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Photo source: The Michael Knowles Show, via YouTube (screenshot).

Meyer, Knowles: The Evolutionary Mystery of Language

If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by Casey Luskin.

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Who Speaks for God? Darwinists Do, Apparently

Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellow Stephen Dilley explores this curious phenomenon in his talk at the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Read More ›
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Photo: Brown-headed sloth, by Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Spine, Human and Otherwise: A Miracle of Embryological Development

The sloth has ten neck vertebrae whereas almost all other mammals have seven. The sloth’s extra vertebrae allow it to swivel its neck almost all the way around Read More ›
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Photo: Karl Popper, University of Vienna, © Hubertl / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

On Natural Selection, Popper’s Posthumous Gift

If philosopher of science Karl Popper wanted to leave a gift for those who came after to puzzle over and discuss, he couldn’t have chosen more astutely. Read More ›
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Photo: Karl Popper, University of Vienna, © Hubertl / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›
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Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›
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The Incredible “Floating” Human Knee Joint

I fully agree with Nathan Lents that the evolutionary paradigm predicts the knee should be a very poor design Read More ›
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Another Hypothesis for the Origin of Animals

This one uses an analogy to the origin of smartphones. No kidding. Yet, it’s an interesting article. Just not really evolutionary theory in any normal sense. Read More ›
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Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. Read More ›

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