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Listen: Median Artery and Evolution Hype

It’s far from clear how natural selection could select for this as an “adaptation” when its most obvious effect is to contribute to carpal tunnel syndrome. Read More ›
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Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?

Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights. Read More ›
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Behe’s Latest Gives the Lie to Critics’ Accusation

Michael Behe's pro-Darwin critics have jumped all over him. Some even claim he’s ignored their objections. Read More ›
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Armed and Dangerous: Human Evolution in Action — Or Is It Fake News?

Researchers say a growing number of adults have a persistent, prominent median artery in their arms, an artery that’s important in the embryonic stage. Read More ›
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Wesley Smith: An Anti-Human Movement

A good and worthwhile conservation movement is being corrupted, and this hurts humans, especially in the developing world and among marginalized groups. Read More ›
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents

Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel. Read More ›
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An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?

Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection? Read More ›
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The Elements — An Independent Line of Evidence for Intelligent Design

Twenty elements — and water, too — appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Read More ›
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A Contest More Consequential than a U.S. Election? Yes! John Lennox Explains

Lennox tells about discovering the damage an atheist worldview does. He saw it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe, and he saw what it does to rationality. Read More ›
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Against the Tide: John Lennox on the New Atheism

The movie will be in theaters for three nights only in November, and will feature a conversation between Dr. Lennox and Stephen Meyer following the screening. Read More ›

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