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Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design

Eastern U.S. states will see a natural phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for many years: the coordinated emergence of two broods of noisy cicadas. Read More ›
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From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›
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Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Mystery of the Missing Evidence

Charles Darwin continually promised his “big book” full of missing evidence to many of his correspondents but failed to deliver it. Read More ›
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Photo: Caterpillar in Baltic amber, by Manukyan Andranik via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 International).

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Read More ›
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Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen. Read More ›
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Were Neanderthals Religious?

We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›
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Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›
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Photo: Seattle waterfront, by Ron Clausen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stepping in It: An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland

I walked out onto the sidewalk, enjoying the salty mist and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Then I looked down. Read More ›
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Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories

Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends. Read More ›

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