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CSC Science Team Asks: What Should We Expect to Find in Nature?

The junk DNA paradigm shift is a good example of how an intelligent design framework can serve as a productive guide to scientific research.  Read More ›
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Tonight on NOVA: From “These Tiny Little Mistakes” — Evolution!

“Life continues to create itself,” “evolution is entirely built on these tiny little mistakes.” Read More ›
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Science, Science Abuse, and Today’s “Jewish Question”

Tucker Carlson has called for everyone in Israel to have a DNA test, to sort out the real from the false of “Abram's descendants.” Read More ›
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Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Read More ›
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Lessons from Cooked Amoebas: The Dallinger Experiment

Christoph Adami discusses work by Reverend William Dallinger, a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Read More ›
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Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations of Intelligent Design

From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life. Read More ›
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Read More ›
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Get Smart: Neanderthals Progress from Brute to Beaut

We must be ready to ask some questions about many of the evolution stories we have taken for granted. Read More ›
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DNA and Beyond: A Multilayered Revolution

Because we are dealing with foundational scientific discoveries, we will address several “So what?” questions. Read More ›
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Cronin’s Assembly Theory Continues to Perform Its Magic

Cronin and Walker know what is wrong with origin-of-life research. They’re just afraid of what may be right. Read More ›

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