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James Tour
Photo: James Tour, via YouTube.

Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Nathan Jacobson.

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Read More ›
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Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›
James Tour
Photo: James Tour, via YouTube (screenshot).

James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable

Props to Professor Lee Cronin for agreeing to participate. Wish you could be a fly on the wall? Here's good news. Read More ›
Mount Rushmore
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Ahead of New Book Edition, Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference

Designed features can hide in plain sight. A closer look can sometimes reveal the intentional acts of a mind. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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For Our Daily Bread, Thank Planetary Fine-Tuning

The existence of progenitor food crops (edible plants) on Earth was a necessary starting point for the availability of our food. Read More ›
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Woke Science: Affirmative Action as a Health Measure

“Expert” class imperialism over purely political issues continues apace. Affirmative action is now a form of societally administered health care. Read More ›
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Harvard Prof Will Explain Science to Baffled Small City America

Professor Oreskes writes articles with titles like “The Reason Some Republicans Mistrust Science: Their Leaders Tell Them To.” Read More ›
Edaphosaurus pogonias
Photo: Edaphosaurus pogonias, by Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›

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