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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, a fossil dragonfly species, 191 million years old, named in honor of ID scientist Michael Behe, by Günter Bechly.

Günter Bechly: Why the Fossil Record Points to Intelligent Design

He covers how “a lightbulb went on” for him about Darwinism, the fatal waiting time problem, why the ballyhooed extended synthesis fails to save the day for evolution, and more. Read More ›
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Photo: Royal Society, entrance, by Tom Morris (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

A Darwinist Recognizes (Some of) the Stakes in the Intelligent Design Debate

I would be curious to hear how Darwinists like Dr. Freestone reconcile their evolutionism not just with religion but with their commitment to human equality. Read More ›
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Reeves: Natural Selection, Explanatory Deficits, and Bunnies (Dark and Light)

The story includes the neo-Darwinian modern synthesis and the extended evolutionary synthesis, culminating in a 2016 meeting of the Royal Society. Read More ›
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I Disagree with David Klinghoffer, But It’s My Fault for the Confusion

Evolution is an implication — that is, an empirical consequence — of design. Read More ›
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Crop close up of unhappy young couple sit separate have problems in relationship think of breakup or divorce. Upset man and woman family lovers avoid talking suffer from cheating in relation troubles.
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An Unhappy Couple: Paul Nelson Reports on the Cambridge “Evolution Evolving” Meeting

Nelson offers a comparison from the world of dating. We’ve all seen it: the supposedly content pair where one partner is in fact clearly “looking around.” Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, in Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Science Review Offers False Accusations about Chloroquine Resistance

In one paragraph Lents et al. twice cited sources they thought contradicted Behe, and twice suggested he ignored or dismissed contrary evidence. Read More ›
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Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›
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Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism 

Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science. Read More ›
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Image: Human eye, by FelixMittermeier, via Pixabay.

Design (But Not Design) Is the New Unifying Principle of Biology

The human eye is for seeing, whether or not it has any effect on genetics. However, this common-sense view has a problem. Read More ›

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