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Despite Scopes Effect, Intelligent Design Flourishes

As Casey Luskin notes, the intelligent design research project has gone from strength to strength in the last three decades. Read More ›
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Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism 

Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›
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Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution

As with the legendary fake villages, evolutionary theory consists of a thin façade cloaking a lack of substance. Read More ›
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Richard Dawkins, the Koala, and the Giraffe

We are pleased to offer this Abstract from a new paper, “Richard Dawkins, the Koala, and the Giraffe: How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design.” Read More ›
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Hello, Stuart Kauffman

Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›
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“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›
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Progress Since the Sternberg Smithsonian Saga 20 Years Ago

For decades, opponents of intelligent design derided the theory as unscientific because it hadn’t been published in peer-reviewed science journals. Read More ›
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Nobel Prize vs. the Peppered Myth

Winners of the Nobel Prize this year have undercut the Darwinian explanation for industrial melanism. Read More ›
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Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic? 

Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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