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Frankenstein
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Image: Illustration from Frankenstein, 1922, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Google books) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›
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Photo: Surface of Mars as seen from the Curiosity rover, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
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Photo credit: David Mark via Pixabay.

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›
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Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace, by George Beccaloni / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

When Alfred Russel Wallace Spoke to Me

I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind” to take in what Wallace had to tell me. Read More ›
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Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›
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Upstairs into the Plague

Every stock boy or housekeeper or nurse is doing more to fight this pandemic than all the politicians and talking-head science grifters and tenure-track professors. Read More ›
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Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Darwinian Faith and Fetish

Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post. Read More ›
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In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History

Scientism’s grand progress narrative holds that as we learn more and more about the world, purely natural or material explanations inevitably will arise and grow stronger. Read More ›
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Imagine Copernicus, Newton, Pasteur “Marching for Science”

Jonathan Witt: “In the M4S subculture, dissent is a thought crime.” Read More ›

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