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How Should We Then Teach Evolution? 

Students who learn the difficult but important skills of examining data are more likely to engage in learning that sets them up for future STEM success. Read More ›
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With an Assist from Nature, DNA Travels the Globe

Life makes its way around the world using nonliving transportation systems, seeding the world with complex specified information. Read More ›
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Photo: Lunar shadow in total solar eclipse seen from the International Space Station, March 29, 2006, via NASA.

Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Today we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the solar eclipse that, on May 29, 1919, physicist Arthur Eddington observed, seeking to test the General Theory of Relativity. Read More ›
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Photo: Fertile Earth juxtaposed with barren Mars, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates

The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year. Read More ›
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Photo: Azure Kingfisher, by JJ Harrison, [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism

The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains. Read More ›
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Gilder: AI and the Return of the Marxist Utopia

In this vision, thanks to AI, work is to become an obsolete concept as we all sit around on the beach collecting a monthly paycheck from the government. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens.

The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›
Manfred Eigen
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Photo: Manfred Eigen (second from the right) met with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1983, by Rob Croes / Anefo [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show

We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Mike Peel [CC BY-SA 2.0 uk], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Paper Confirms the Trilobite Explosion

It’s important to note that the “true tempo of early animal evolution” exists in evolutionists’ imaginations, not in the rocks. Read More ›
Geoffrey Simmons
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Photo: Center for Science & Culture Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem, courtesy of Dr. Simmons.

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant? 

There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›

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