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With Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Genes,” Plato Exacts His Revenge

If I had no sense of humor whatsoever about the whole thing, I would point out that the nature of “genes” is the subject of a fascinating scientific dispute. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Is Undeniable 

The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›
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Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science

For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk. Read More ›
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Do Large Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent “Technical Failures”? 

The insinuation is that something went wrong in the lab during the attempted alignment process. Read More ›
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A Diffident Revolutionary

In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›
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Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different

This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater. Read More ›
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Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›
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What’s the Best Explanation for Human-Chimp Genetic Differences? 

We have broken a major story about a recently published study showing that the human and chimp genomes are 14.0 percent to 14.9 percent different. Read More ›
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If Richard Sternberg Is Right, That Would Be the End of Darwinism

If the genome is not wholly material, then a fully material process like Darwinian evolution cannot even gain full access to it. Read More ›
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The Immaterial Genome: Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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