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McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Read More ›
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Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Read More ›
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Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of  the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution

Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism. Read More ›
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2022 YouTube Film Festival: Science Uprising on the Fossil Record

Join paleontologist Günter Bechly, geologist Casey Luskin, and evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg as they explore the state of the debate. Read More ›
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Jay Richards on the Art of Answering Theistic Evolutionists

If someone tells you he’s a theistic evolutionist, first find out what he means by theism and evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›
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Tulane Physicist Frank Tipler on Meyer’s God Hypothesis

Dr. Meyer turns to physics and cosmology, permitting him to draw the stunning conclusion of a personal God acting at the beginning of existence. Read More ›

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