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Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›
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Spider-Man, the Multiverse, and Intelligent Design

In the new Spider-Man movie, the multiverse not only makes an appearance but plays a crucial role in the plot. Read More ›
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Photo: Fossil bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician, by Wilson44691, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More Cambrian Woes for Evolution

New fossils continue to put pressure on the evolutionary narrative of gradualism. Read More ›
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Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Read More ›
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Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›
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Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Photo: Clifton Suspension Bridge, by Nic Trott, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tricks of the Cell Trade

Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains. Read More ›
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Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›
Santal
Photo: Santa people, by Ramjit Tudu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Reviewing Sapiens: Getting the Origin of Religion Backwards

The traditions of the Santal people entail an account of their own religious history that directly contradicts Harari’s evolutionary view. Read More ›

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