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Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin in South Africa.

I’m Excited to Return to Discovery Institute to Find Intelligent Design Stronger Than Ever!

Over the past few years, I’ve seen ID critics advance some wild and amusing conspiracy theories about the reasons for my departure and absence. Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

See It Now: James Tour and Brian Miller on Explaining the Origin of Life

They cover abiogenesis and “Natural Selection of the Gaps,” systems biology, design triangulation, whether life could arise anywhere without design, and more. Read More ›
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Is It a Boy or a Girl?

Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other. Read More ›
Mousetrap Behe

Praise for Behe’s Latest: “Facts Before Theory”

Says Michael Denton, "The book represents a devastatingly brilliant unanswerable response to his Darwinian critics and to the whole Darwinian worldview." Read More ›
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Inside the Evolution Silo — Darwinism as a Cult

A major news story can break outside of the silo but, because it goes against the narrative, those in the silo will never hear about it. Read More ›
Consulting the Oracle
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Science as Oracle — “Where It Gets Weird”

The ancients had their oracles, people claiming to speak in the name of the gods — this, by divination. Read More ›
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Photo: Mantid may imitate a leaf or a flower to avoid being eaten, by Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Read More ›
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Fine-Tuning, Free Will — Now We’ve Got Two Challenges for Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

She acknowledges that she is speaking from outside one relevant field. Can you really use physics to deny free will while ignoring neuroscience? Read More ›
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Photo: MC Hammer, by Brian Solis / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Rapper MC Hammer Embraces Intelligent Design

Intelligent design advocates seek to persuade the public and scientists equally, and in both those respects ID had an excellent weekend. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
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A. R. Wallace Is Evolution’s Last Man Standing

Only Wallace’s postulation of an “Overruling Intelligence” to explain the complexities of humanity and nature has stood the test of time. Read More ›

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