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irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity

Danaher’s critiques of irreducible complexity are poorly informed and based on misunderstandings of intelligent design and what its key defenders argue. Read More ›
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Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Read More ›
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Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›
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Photo: Trinity detonation, by United States Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›
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Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›
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Photo: World Health Organization, by Yann Forget, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is the Plan to Impose a Public-Health Technocracy Faltering?

In February, I warned about a treaty being negotiated to empower the WHO to declare a pandemic, which would trigger governments assuming emergency powers. Read More ›
Saturn’s North Pole hexagon
Photo: Saturn’s North Pole hexagon, via NASA/JPL-Caltech, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

Applying the Design Filter to Hexagons

The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena. Read More ›
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Medical Conscience Crisis Comes to Ireland

This is not only authoritarian — shattering the guarantees of religious liberty in virtually all existing human-rights accords — but could cause a significant brain drain. Read More ›

Ireland Goes Back to Its Roots

It is a matter of fact — a straightforward scientific fact known since the basics of human reproduction were first understood — that human life begins at fertilization of the egg by the sperm. Read More ›

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