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Photo: Medium tree finch, by Jody O'Connor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›
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Photo credit: CrisNYCa, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends

There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man. Read More ›
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Photo: A comb jelly, by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›
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Image: Courtesy of Dr. Michael Chaberek OP.

Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Introducing Online High School Chemistry with an Intelligent Design Perspective

This chemistry course is unique among other available chemistry courses because it’s connected with Discovery Institute. Read More ›
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Photo: Ceratotherium simum, by Byrdyak, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. Read More ›
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Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Read More ›
Under the Sea
Photo: Jellyfish galaxy JO206, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team.

Theistic Cosmology and Theistic Evolution — Understanding the Difference

Astronomers have convincingly shown that the laws of nature are sufficient to account for the formation of stars and planetary systems throughout the universe. Read More ›
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Photo: Laurence Moran and Paul Nelson, courtesy of Dr. Nelson.

Why Knockouts and Deletions Are Insufficient for Inferring Function — The Mystery of Cell “Vaults” 

The other day, UPS brought me a copy of Larry Moran’s new book. Moran is a well-known opponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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