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“Professor Dave” and the Art of Projection

If I ever get asked to write a chapter on projection for a psychology textbook, Dave Farina’s outrageously disrespectful performance will be exhibit A. Read More ›
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FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution

An email correspondent who is friendly to intelligent design (ID) recently wrote us asking how to respond to common objections to ID arguments about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity 

The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›
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#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development?  Read More ›
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Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the Problem of Pain

It is often claimed that the design inference is a religious conclusion. It is not. Read More ›
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Here’s What Happens When Science Goes Woke

When fashion mags go woke, no one cares. Some girls want to wear rags on their heads, well… But science mags? Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist

Darwinists have been led by their philosophy to misjudge human anatomy. Lents, in his fervor, “ignores biomechanics research,” “ignores engineering research.” Read More ›
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›

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