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Photo: Palawan swiftlets can hunt in the dark, another example of echolocation attributed to convergent evolution, along with bats, dolphins, and whales; by Andrea Giovanni Murachelli, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner’s Critique of Convergent Evolution

We bring you the last of three interviews with MIT-trained physicist Lee Spetner. We were saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Spetner at 91 years old. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Daisuke Tashiro, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner on What Natural Selection Can Do — And What It Can’t

Dr Spetner also explores aspects of population genetics and the constraints the Earth’s history imposes. Read More ›
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Photo: Monarch butterfly, by Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner Took Aim at Natural Selection and Population Genetics

Spetner, a PhD from MIT, discusses natural selection, what it can and cannot do. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Hawking, by NASA HQ Photo, via Flickr (cropped).

Rabbi Moshe Averick Takes on Stephen Hawking’s Nonsense of a High Order

Averick describes the work as “superficial,” “convenient,” and marked by “a glaring lack of profundity.” Read More ›
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Photo: Neptune, photographed by Voyager 2, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Rabbi Moshe Averick: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, and shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›
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Rabbi Moshe Averick Deflates the Multiverse, and the New Atheists

Rabbi Averick shares his spirited takedown of the multiverse theory for the origin of life, and dismantles the “God of the Gaps” objection to ID. Read More ›
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Photo: Cafe Darwin, by Nathan Jacobson.

Listen: Lee Spetner Takes Aim at Natural Selection and Population Genetics

ID the Future explores key arguments from Dr. Spetner’s books Not by Chance and The Evolution Revolution. Read More ›
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Why Neo-Darwinism Is Less than a Theory

Lee Spetner also argues that, contrary to Darwinist propaganda, the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria demonstrates a loss of information rather than a gain. Read More ›
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Is It Impious to Laugh at Stephen Hawking’s Thoughts on Religion?

Rabbi Moshe Averick concludes, “If he did physics that way his university would have fired him.” Read More ›

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