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Jerry Coyne

Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
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A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence

Yuval Noah Harari quickly gets down to business, unsentimentally shredding Jefferson’s noble phrases. Read More ›
Metaxas Carlson
Darwinist
Photo: Tucker Carlson and Eric Metaxas on Tucker Carlson Tonight, via Real Clear Politics (screen shot).

Evolutionist Responds to Eric Metaxas on the “Meaning” Question

“If you actually believe we evolved out of the primordial soup and through happenstance got here, by accident, then our lives literally have no meaning.” Read More ›
Notre-Dame
religion
Photo: Notre-Dame Cathedral (seen as it appeared about 1860) was consecrated by French Revolutionaries to the “Goddess of Reason,” by Édouard Baldus [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionist Seethes as Duke Professor Analyzes Secular “Religion”

Staddon’s piece is topical, well written, and carefully reasoned. Coyne is of course free to disagree with Staddon’s conclusions. Read More ›
polar bear
chart
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Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

The criticisms keep coming. It’s hard to keep up. Lents, in fact, just yesterday added additional commentary on Behe’s use of the chart. Read More ›
polar bear
Behe
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Polar Bear Seminar: Why Behe Is Right

Starting today, you’re invited to sit back and enjoy a five-part series on polar bear genes in light of Behe’s thesis in Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
Robert Marks
Photo: Robert Marks, by Daniel Reeves.

Darwinism, Post-Modernism, and the Summer Seminars

While historically belonging to the pre-modern 19th century, Darwinian evolution teaches what amounts to the deconstruction of what was understood before to be the great design of biology. Read More ›
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Kepler
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Kepler Versus Religion as a Football

Evolutionists play a game, and it’s a shallow one. So what’s the truth about science, and religion, and how they do or do not fit together? Read More ›
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Kenneth Miller
Image source: Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

With Kenneth Miller, Behe’s Would-Be Nemesis, History Repeats Itself

The Brown University biologist is still out there, reassuring the world that unguided “evolutionary mechanisms” comfortably explain the wonders of biology. Read More ›
Christina Cheng
proteins
Photo: Christina Cheng, University of Illinois, by L. Brian Stauffer, via EurekAlert!

Jerry Coyne, Ken Miller Revive a “Fishy Story”

Coyne is sure this is going to come as a rude shock, to our colleague and contributor Dr. Behe in particular, “a slap in the face of IDers like Michael Behe — a fish slap like the one below.” Read More ›
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animals
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Why Animals Don’t Speak

If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation. Read More ›

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