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Michael Denton

Water calendar
Image source: Zazzle.

It’s Black Friday: Get Your New ID-Themed Calendar!

New this year is Wondrous Water, a calendar featuring gorgeous water photography. Read More ›
Lucretius
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

The Stars Above Us

What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions. Read More ›
Brian Miller
Photo: Brian Miller in a scene from Science Uprising.

The Proles, the Party, and a Science Uprising

Our tech rulers are quite the egalitarians. Sure, they believe that cheap entertainments for all have an important role. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jannik - JWDShots on Unsplash.

How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin 

I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists. Read More ›
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Heretic
Photo credit: Engin_Akyurt, via Pixabay.

Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›
Photo: Aurora Australis from the International Space Station, by NASA.

Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos? Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Owen (left); beside him is the skeleton of a giant moa, by John van Voorst [Public domain].

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›
desert varnish
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Living Murals: Wall Art Made by Photosynthetic Bacteria

Long suspected to be biological in origin, desert varnish is confirmed to be the product of light-gathering microbes that concentrate manganese as sunscreen. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
cactus
Photo credit: Sam Goodgame via Unsplash.

Handling Water Like Nature Does — By Intelligent Design

Here in the Pacific Northwest we are heading into a possibly historic heatwave. Water is on everyone's mind. Nature beautifully anticipated our needs. Read More ›

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