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Praise for Behe’s Latest: “Facts Before Theory”

Says Michael Denton, "The book represents a devastatingly brilliant unanswerable response to his Darwinian critics and to the whole Darwinian worldview." Read More ›
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Photo: Geospiza fortis, by putneymark via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).

Galápagos Finches — A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?

They are not, per the National Academy of Sciences, a “particularly convincing example for speciation.” Read More ›
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Photo: Yellow star, Belgium, 1942, by DRG-fan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design’s Yellow Star: Journal’s Disclaimer Refutes a Common Criticism of ID

Critics of intelligent design (ID) often lecture ID proponents that they are free to submit their work to any scientific journal. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Timo Volz via Unsplash.

Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence? Read More ›
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Trinity College Dublin
Photo: Trinity College Dublin, by Niaz at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Free Speech for Richard Dawkins? Absolutely!

In 1987, a harmless graduate student who wanted to take on the dreadful giant neo-Darwinism might be an entertaining spectacle. Read More ›
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Photo: A water lily, Hyderabad, India, by Premalatha Kalagara / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

In Defiance of Evolution, Hierarchical Design Is Ubiquitous in Biology

Design with interdependent layers presents a challenge to neo-Darwinism. Natural selection is oblivious to anything but an immediate beneficial variation. Read More ›
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Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Angie via Unsplash.

Five New Biology Papers Show Cracks in Darwin’s Foundation

Are there rumblings of discontent? Is it getting safer to question the claims of conventional neo-Darwinism? Read More ›
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Whose Lives Matter? Darwinism as Soil for Scientific Racism

Here is one more reason among many to take a hard, honest look at the growing scientific evidence against Darwinian theory. Read More ›
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Scientist Admits Biologists Are Obsessed with Intelligent Design

What do scientists spend more time thinking about — sex, or the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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