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Günter Bechly

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Photo: Pteridinium simplex, an Ediacaran creature from Namibia, by Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come. Read More ›
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Photo: Jonathan McLatchie, by John West.

At Conference in Venice, Scientists Discuss Challenges to Darwin, Past and Future 

One of the highlights was a poignant talk by Italian biologist Umberto Fasol, who recounted how a seminal book challenging Darwinism had changed his life Read More ›
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A Century After the Scopes Trial, Censoring Spirit on Evolution Still Thrives

From evolutionists, a surge of persecutions has included tenure denials, job blacklisting, and speech codes. Read More ›
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Image: Bullfight in a Divided Ring, by Francisco Goya, Metropolitan Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ed Siasoco (aka SC Fiasco), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. 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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Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›
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Graphic by Nathan Jacobson

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Read More ›
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Photo: Academy of Athens, by George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›

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