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Molecular Biologist Marci Reeves on the Principles of Scientific Thinking

She uses the analogy of a beautifully frosted cake. The bottom layer is the raw data, while additional layers include interpretation, narrative, and hype. Read More ›
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West: Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin”

Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone. Read More ›
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One of Science’s Biggest Mistakes

Prevailing scientific assumptions often die hard, especially when they fit so neatly into an evolutionary view of the development of life on Earth. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Read More ›
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
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Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Repair Trust in Science? In Science Magazine, Forrest Mims Replies

Charles Darwin is an example of a brilliant scientist who was nonetheless an imperfect human with some false ideas. Read More ›
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Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson glimpsed in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

Film Festival 2023 — “Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Stupid ‘Stupid Design’ Argument”

Today we are highlighting a video featuring molecular biologist Douglas Axe of Biola University and his response to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›
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Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology? A Philosopher and a Biologist Want to Try

They propose the term “biological role” instead. Thus, presumably, “the function of teeth is chewing” becomes “the biological role of teeth is chewing.” Read More ›

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