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Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›
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God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Read More ›
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The Incredible “Floating” Human Knee Joint

I fully agree with Nathan Lents that the evolutionary paradigm predicts the knee should be a very poor design Read More ›
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Is This a Transitional “Missing Link” for Giraffes? Nope

The giraffe’s fossil record reflects a pattern of abrupt appearance rather than the infinitesimally small variations. Read More ›
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Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›
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Origins, Destiny, and Intelligent Design

Apart from an intelligent designer, “…we are forced to believe that nucleic acids eventually acquire awareness of their own existence when they are mixed.” Read More ›
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Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source
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Can the Flagellum Get Any Better? Yes! Add Gears

The bacterial flagellum is more souped-up than even Michael Behe thought: it’s a gear-driven motor of motors! Read More ›
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Gulf Between Ape-Like and Human Grows Wider

This trend supports the traditional view that humans were uniquely designed rather than evolving willy-nilly from ape-like ancestors. Read More ›
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Fascinating Hypothesis from Weinstein: Repetitive “Junk” DNA Stores Integer Variables

This opens up a world of potential functions for repetitive DNA that open-minded scientists can consider. Read More ›
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Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Read More ›

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