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Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
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Online Education and the Evolution Debate

Given recent developments in education, our mission has become more urgent than ever. Read More ›
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Tyson and Cosmos Sound the Climate Alarm Again

During the present coronavirus threat we can learn some valuable lessons about model predictions. Read More ›
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Life’s Hard Stop: Fortune? Or Foresight?

Here’s another “incredibly fortunate” thing about the Cambrian explosion and about evolution generally. Read More ›
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Indoctrination or Debate? How to Teach Evolution

A course in “Science and Nonsense” is intended to persuade, to herd students toward approved opinions. Read More ›
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Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›

The Forgotten Civil Right

In resisting bullies and censors, free speech advocates have done important work. They need, however, to add science to their range of concerns. Read More ›
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For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›

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