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homo erectus
human origins
Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
chimp liberation
animal rights
Image credit: Hannes Richter via Unsplash.

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 ›
computer
Photo credit: John Schnobrich via Unsplash.

Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Read More ›
Galápagos_finch
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 ›
Cell-DNA-chromatin-strands-nucleus
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Molecular Machine Safari

Take a tour of molecular machines working in the cell and see what new things scientists have found out about them. Read More ›
water lily
Photo: A water lily from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil, copyright by G. Bechly.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›
Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson
Photo: Paul Nelson, by Nathan Jacobson.

Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?

An “engineering theory of evolution” might be one way of expressing what the ID proponents who participated in the CELS event were seeking. Read More ›
Erika DeBenedictis
Photo: Erika DeBenedictis, via YouTube (screenshot).

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›

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