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Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›
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What Intelligent Design Research on COVID-19 Would Look Like

Is there evidence for intelligent human agency in COVID-19, given its structure and what is known about its emergence? Read More ›
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Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome “Junk”

The ENCODE project, now in its 17th year, ended its third phase with a new record of annotated elements in human and mouse genomes. Phase 4 is coming. Read More ›
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In Biology, Intelligent Designs that Amaze, Amuse, and Entertain

Animals and plants keep giving scientists and engineers ideas for biomimetic designs. Sometimes observing the organisms is just plain fun. Read More ›
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Remembering Phil Johnson: Visiting San Fran Will Never Be the Same

It pleased me to find out that his reading of my book was one of the major influences that motivated him to take up the fight. Read More ›
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What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›
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Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.” Read More ›
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Photo: Albert Einstein Memorial, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., by G0T0 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really “Ready When You Are”?

Kevin Williamson imagines that scientists are free to “slug it out” in journals and other academic settings, so that the truth reliably emerges. Read More ›
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Photo: Memory (sculpture, marble), by Daniel Chester French, 1886–1887, Metropolitan Museum of Art,  via Wikimedia Commons.

Memory — New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too

A memory of past events helps a cell learn how to respond to recurring threats and protect the genome. Read More ›
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Michael Gerson: How Rejecting Evolution Led to Evangelical Support for Trump

Well that’s at least a novel theory. Read More ›

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