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Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Read More ›
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Photo by Ashlee Best at the 2024 COSM Technology Summit. © Discovery Institute.

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Read More ›
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“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." Read More ›
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Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth

Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Edward Gibbon, Library of Congress, by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Read More ›
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The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›
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Life as a Habitability Requirement

Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability?  Read More ›
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Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design” 

Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin in 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron, via Wikimedia Commons.

Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›

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