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Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s mechanism of natural selection working on genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Read More ›
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Epigenetics Directs Genetics — And That’s a Problem for Darwinism

The ability to sequence genomes was a great accomplishment. But there is something over and above genes. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Desmostylia, and the Problem of Horizontal Tooth Displacement

Nature appears to be deceptive. Are Darwinists bothered by such problems? Not at all. Read More ›
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Behe, Medved: Blood Clotting Reveals Purpose, Not Blind Evolution

Everything from the blood clotting system to a myriad of crucial protein structures increasingly appear to be far beyond the reach of blind evolution. Read More ›
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Günter Bechly’s Journey to Faith

I can identify with the last paragraph, in the context of my own different religious tradition, with certain other difference as well. Read More ›
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Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Turtles All the Way Down

Contrary to the gradualistic expectations of Darwin’s theory, the distinct body plan of turtles appeared abruptly in the Late Triassic. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Jason Rosenhouse, a Crude Darwinist

As a fellow mathematician, I would have liked to see from Rosenhouse a vigorous and insightful discussion of my ideas. Read More ›

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