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Commonweal Misrepresents Isaac Newton, Intelligent Design

Newton was arguing from science, not religion. But that doesn’t fit the Epicurean mythos that religion opposes naturalism while science confirms it. Read More ›
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In National Review, John Farrell’s Predictable and Misleading Review of Darwin’s Doubt

Instead of addressing, or even accurately representing, Meyer's main argument for intelligent design, Farrell devotes a significant portion of his review to criticizing the book for the alleged misuse of an ellipsis. Read More ›

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: HuffPost Reviews The Myth of Junk DNA

Yes, it's the venerable principle of Darwinian theory that says: Whatever turns out to be the case is retrospectively recognized as having been exactly what the theory predicted. Read More ›

Has Forbes.com Critic of The Myth of Junk DNA Read the Book?

Over at his Forbes.com blog, John Farrell has written a critique of Jonathan Wells’ new book The Myth of Junk DNA. The only problem is that many of the arguments Farrell critiques aren’t ones that Jonathan Wells makes in the book. Below is a comment I posted on Mr. Farrell’s blog in response: About two years ago when Stephen Meyer published Signature in the Cell, we saw that many early reviewers clearly hadn’t read the book. We even saw Francisco Ayala review Signature in the Cell by attacking arguments Meyer hadn’t made–including arguments about alleged imperfections in the genome. It seems that even this soon after the release of The Myth of Junk DNA we’re seeing a similar pattern from Read More ›

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Who Misrepresented Who? A Response to John Farrell

When we find re-usage of parts in a way that cannot be explained by a phylogenetic tree and common descent, this is the sort of data we might expect under intelligent design. Read More ›

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