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Kenneth Miller

Mind The Gaps
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Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
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How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?

Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data. Read More ›
Przewalski's horse
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Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes: A Retrospective on an Old Debate

The main evidence that Dr. Scott cites to argue that chromosomal fusions aren’t necessarily deleterious comes not from humans but from horses. Read More ›
Eugenie Scott
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Blast from the Past: Eugenie Scott’s Failed Prediction on Pseudogenes

Scott confidently asserts that because of mutations the beta-globin pseudogene “isn’t going to do diddly. It’s just going to sit there.” Read More ›
Adam and Eve
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Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Read More ›
C.-S.-Lewis
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C. S. Lewis and Theistic Evolution

Biological development is either the result of an unintelligent material process or a process guided by a mind, aka intelligent design. Read More ›
Francis-Collins
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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 ›
bacterial-flagellum
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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›
Behe and Mousetrap
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Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More

Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
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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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