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Could Evolution Give Us Free Will?

From one corner we learn that free will could possibly exist, provided that it is materialized or, if you like “evolutionized.” Read More ›
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Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in an Intelligently Designed World

As Hedin puts it, “The universe reveals who we are by allowing us to make free choices.” In other words, the ball is in our court. Read More ›
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Photo: A skull from the Qafzeh Cave, by Wapondaponda, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›
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Photo credit: All photos in this article are by Casey Luskin.

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›
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Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?

Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Human-Animal Friendships

A man and his emotional support alligator, Wally, made headlines last week when they tried to attend a baseball game together in Philadelphia. Read More ›
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Photo: tk, by Jan Bielecki, Alexander K. Zaharoff, Nicole Y. Leung, Anders Garm, Todd H. Oakley(altered), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›

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