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Photo credit: Qijin Xu via Unsplash.

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›
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Photo: A beaver, depicted on the Canadian Parliament Building, by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›
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Photo: Mount St. Helens, 1982, by Lyn Topinka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›
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Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species

If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar? Read More ›
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Photo: First responders, by Matt Chesin via Unsplash.

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Read More ›
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Selective focus on a tall, dark lamp post during a snow storm in the pacific northwest woodland
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C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions

Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for? Read More ›
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Sociologist Steve Fuller: How ID Foxes Can Beat the Darwinian Lions 

University of Warwick sociologist Steve Fuller is one of the few researchers in his field who knows much about intelligent design and the controversy it ignites. Read More ›
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Photo: James Shapiro, University of Chicago biologist, of "Third Way" fame.

London Guardian Acknowledges the Irony of Excluding ID Advocates from the Royal Society Meeting

Sociologist Steve Fuller's theme is what he calls "post-truth." Read More ›

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