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How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility

Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jannik - JWDShots on Unsplash.

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: A Neanderthal, by Paul Hudson, via Flickr (cropped).

Human Origins — The Scientific Imagination at Play

Not surprisingly, the transition from ape to man is the first, second, and third image produced by a Google image search for the term "evolution." Read More ›
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Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science

Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point. Read More ›
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The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, by Chris Morgan.

Watch: Some (but Far from All) of the Raves for Meyer’s God Hypothesis

Oh, and the book just got an endorsement from physicist and Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson at Cambridge University. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

What We Can Learn from Darwin

We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer, David Berlinski, and David Gelernter (l to r).

Intelligent Design — Join the Resistance While There’s Still Time

We may be in a precious window when ID scientists can still reach any interested reader, anywhere in the world, any day of the year. Read More ›
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Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›
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Photo: Bill Nye and the March for Science, by Paul and Cathy / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

When “Science” Becomes a Cult

The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Read More ›

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