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Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?

The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution. Read More ›
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Foresight
Photo: Marcos Eberlin, speaking in Dallas this month, by Chris Morgan.

An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight

Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better. Read More ›
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Perplexing: Michael Behe’s Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation

Writing in the journal Science, reviewers Lents, Swamidass, and Lenski make a very specific, clear, strong, and unambiguous claim. Read More ›
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Photo: A train wreck, 1895, Montparnasse Station, Paris, via Wikimedia Commons.

Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science

Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date. Read More ›
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First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning

This line of argumentation only appears compelling to those who assume from that start that the core assumptions of the standard evolutionary model are true. Read More ›
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Photo: Dr. Brian Miller spoke to high school students at the 2018 ID Education Day.

The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections

A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments. Read More ›
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Photo: Atheist Lawrence Krauss and Christian theistic evolution Denis Lamoureux (r.) team up in a debate against Stephen Meyer, via Wycliffe College, University of Toronto (screen shot). 

Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication

Attacks by Christian theistic evolutionists have often followed the same patterns as those of their secular colleagues. Read More ›
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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dolphins, by werdepate, via Pixabay.

Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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Image source: CNX OpenStax [CC BY 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›

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