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Introducing a New Design, and a New Name

Conjoining science with culture, while it is the CSC’s calling card, is not our invention. Read More ›
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Three Memories of William F. Buckley

For Buckley on evolution, see here. I’m enjoying the new bio of him very so far, but am prepared to start joining the critics as I read further. Read More ›
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Bombshell: New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1 Percent of DNA

This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Read More ›
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Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›
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Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Read More ›
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Weaponizing Science, Journals Indulge in Political Partisanship

I would say the same thing if they abused the name of science to wrap a Republican, or a Democrat, in it. Read More ›
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How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust

The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Read More ›
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Joe Lieberman, the Sabbath, and Intelligent Design

In simplest terms, the Biblical institution of a Sabbath is intended as a weekly reminder of intelligent design. Read More ›
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In Pope Benedict XVI, Science Had a Friend and Neo-Darwinism a Foe

That Benedict meant to implicate neo-Darwinism in its flight from evidence is not mere wishful thinking on the part of the design community. Read More ›
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How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?

The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.” Read More ›

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