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Hitler Youth
Photo: Hitler Youth, via Bundesarchiv, Bild 147-0510 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nazis and Their Transhumanist Delusion

A new series on Netflix shows what can happen when the delusions of transhumanism join forces with an appalling ideology. Read More ›
chimps
chimps
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Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee

So it comes down to a war on the human soul. Now, here’s the interesting part: Humans are self-evidently unique. Read More ›
Douglas Axe
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Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›
Electric DNA
DNA
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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›
Tongan island
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Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›
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Four Troublesome Trend Lines for Evolution

Taken as a totality, they make “zero sense in the context” of classic evolutionary theory. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
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For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
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An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›
aurora borealis
Photo: Aurora borealis, by NASA/ Bill Dunford.

The Return of Natural Theology

Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›
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New on YouTube: Michael Behe Unravels the Mystery of Biological Information — And the Marvel of Bones

The question posed by considering evolutionary theory versus intelligent design is whether a marvel like the femur could have arisen by chance-driven processes. Read More ›

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