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ScienceAlert Vindicates My Findings About Human “Tails” — They Are NOT an Evolutionary Atavism

The article cites new literature that has appeared since I published my own review nine years ago. Read More ›
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Photo: Dinosaur feather in Burmese amber, coll. SMNS, photo G. Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›
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More Implausible Stories about Eye Evolution

Such accounts invoke the abrupt appearance of key features of advanced eyes including the lens, cornea, and iris. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by NIH Image Gallery, via Flickr.

Book Championing Theistic Evolution Comes up Short

Casey Luskin reviews the contradictions and fallacious bandwagon appeals that he says permeate the book. Read More ›
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De-Humanizing Neanderthals: A Darwinist Dog that Won’t Hunt

Growing evidence suggests Neanderthals buried their dead, employed technology, and had a brain size equal to or even slightly larger than ours. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Casey Luskin examines the evidence. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration 

The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Read More ›
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Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk. Read More ›
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Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, via Wikimedia Commons.

Another Problem with the “Anti-Evolution” Label

The so-called “anti-evolution” charge against intelligent design is what sparked my initial interest in Alfred Russel Wallace some years ago. Read More ›

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