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Przewalski's horse
Photo: Przewalski's horse, by Solar Olga, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes: A Retrospective on an Old Debate

The main evidence that Dr. Scott cites to argue that chromosomal fusions aren’t necessarily deleterious comes not from humans but from horses. Read More ›
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Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›
Abdopus aculeatus
Photo: Abdopus aculeatus, an algae octopus, by IchHier--15er (Diskussion), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Loving Goodbye…from an Octopus?

Did the science teacher's octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye? Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›
Orion Constellation
Photo: Orion Constellation, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Michael Denton on Fine-Tuning: Wheels Within Wheels

When it comes to evidence of fine-tuning in the universe, the more you look, the more you find. Read More ›
Rafting monkey
Photo: Rafting monkey, by Jdlrobson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›
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Photo: E. O. Wilson, by Jim Harrison, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology 

"Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates." Read More ›
Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii
Photo: Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii, by Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›
CRISPR
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Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2021: An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›

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