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Jerry Coyne

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Stocking Stuffers: Smart Squirrels, DNA Origami, and More

Here’s a collection of short news items of interest from the animal and human worlds. Read More ›
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Photo: Justin Bieber, by Lou Stejskal [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

To Bolster Belief in Evolution, Study Recommends Celebrity Endorsements

The study’s design revealed much about the motives of the investigators. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe in Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, via Discovery Institute.

Michael Behe and His Critics

If the past is any guide, where the critics are substantive rather than snarky or patronizing, we’re in for a good debate. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, author of Darwin Devolves, via Discovery Institute.

Evolutionist Attacks Behe Book’s Title

But here’s the lamest thing of all: as a prominent participant in a debate, decrying an idea you don’t understand and on which you haven’t bothered to educate yourself. Read More ›
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On Science, Morality, and Wonder, an Atheist Rebukes Other Atheists

An image offered by Einstein, of the sublimely mysterious library, is sensitive and beautiful. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, in a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Behe’s Irreducible Complexity Validated by Chemistry Nobel

Darwinist Jerry Coyne misunderstands design science. Intelligent design is two scientific inferences. Read More ›
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Photo: Down House, home of Charles Darwin, by Mario Modesto [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Faith and Fetish

Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post. Read More ›
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Photo credit: A statue of Darwin as a young man was commissioned at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, to celebrate the Darwin bicentenary in 2009, with Prince Philip immediately to the right of Darwin. Photo by fortheloveofknowledge [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Darwinian Pilgrimage

Darwin still has some cachet among design advocates. In this I differ from some of my friends and colleagues. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›
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Photo: NGC 3603, a star cluster, by NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities Space Research Association/Ames Research Center), the WFC3 Science Oversight Committee, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

Listen: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

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

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