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Photo: Bust of Alfred Russel Wallace, Wallace Garden, National Botanic Garden of Wales, by Elliott Brown, via Flickr (cropped).

New Book Offers History as an Antidote to the Paralyzing “Science-Denier” Label

Whether the subject is evolution or climate change, the purpose of accusing someone of “science-denial” is to keep that person in line. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace — New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution

Wallace broke with Darwin and became, arguably, the founding father of modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Allegorical depictions of Astronomy and Sculpture, incorporated in spandrels, Bela Pratt, Library of Congress Building, c. 1896, by Carptrash [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma

Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›
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Photo: Snow flakes as seen through a scanning electron microscope, via Wikimedia Commons.

DNA as Clue: How Intelligence Detects and Creates Information

What does it mean that there’s information in DNA, and how does this distinguish it from most other physical objects? Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Is There Information in Saturn’s Rings?

Or in a rock? Or a snowflake? This is a common contention from ID critics. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Maximilian Schönherr [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards: Press Pause on the Robot Apocalypse

Henry Kissinger has sounded an alarm over AI, and raises questions about machine ethics and the possibility that humans may learn we’re not so special after all. Read More ›
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Photo: Henry Kissinger, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, via Flickr.

Jay Richards: Kissinger on the New World of Artificial Intelligence

AI is about statistical processing, not budding consciousness. Read More ›
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Photo credit: JESHOOTScom, via Pixabay.

Dembski and McDowell’s Understanding Intelligent Design: Ten Years On

Sean talks about changes over past decade: Everyone has a smartphone and can, quicker than ever, find someone taking the other side of an argument. Read More ›
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Photo: ID Education Day in Seattle.

This Year’s ID Education Days Were a Smash Success

Many high school students are eager to go beyond the brief and airbrushed presentation of evolutionary theory found in their biology textbooks, and are full of questions. Read More ›

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