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Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body

Things you probably didn’t even know about should arouse awe as we go about our tasks each day, and sleep each night. Read More ›
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anomalies
Photo: Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), by Sergio Martínez-Nebreda and Paula Medina-García/University of Bristol, via EurekAlert!

A Theory in Crisis: Darwinian Anomalies Accumulate

Darwin Day is just a week from today! To help celebrate, here are a few recent findings that contradict Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe at the launch of Discovery Institute-Mackenzie at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017.

Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves — When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself

The idea that scientists are like tribal elders, to be respected and never questioned, much less smirked at (God forbid), is one possible perspective. Read More ›
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Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Rainis Venta [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›
Grand Prismatic Spring
epigenetics
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, by Brocken Inaglory [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL].

Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

Scientists watched microbes inherit extreme acid resistance in Yellowstone hot springs not through genetics, but through epigenetics. Read More ›
Unity and Diversity of Life
University of Utah
Image: A scene from “The Unity and Diversity of Life” via University of Utah (screen shot).

Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center. Read More ›
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DNA
Photo credit: Christiaan Colen, via Flickr (cropped).

Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›
Black-Bellied Seedcracker
Photo credit: A black-bellied seedcracker, by Dr. Tom Smith, UCLA, via EurekAlert!.

Encore Performances in the Design of Life

News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian. Read More ›
Levallois
human origins
Photo: Levallois stone tool technology, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia

The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science. Read More ›

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