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Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution

Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Read More ›
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Under Aesthetic Arrest: Even an Atheist Might Stop and Think

Humans are the only creatures with a capacity for appreciating beauty beyond a rudimentary attraction to something eye-catching, shiny, or colorful. Read More ›
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Paradigm Lost: Darwinism and the Idea of Human Progress

The notion of progress is now of course increasingly questioned, especially after what has come to be known as “the calamitous 20th century.” Read More ›
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Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Have We Overlooked Common Sense?

Take bats, for example. Many types eat upside down, yet they flip to eliminate wastes. Read More ›
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Three Animal Magnetic Compass Mechanisms, All by Design

It appears likely that different animals are designed to detect the geomagnetic field using different mechanisms. Read More ›
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Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›
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What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories? 

The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›
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When Schools of Fish Lose Their Memories

Because we don’t tend to think of fish as being very smart, we don’t think they could have memories that matter. Read More ›
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Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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