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Tinkertoy
Photo credit: Mike Mozart, via Flickr (cropped).

Money, Sex, and Gender

"We both wanted to play with guys, build forts and have snowball fights and play army… She played with my toys: Tinkertoys, dump trucks." Read More ›
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Lennox: Atheists’ Best Objection to Theism?

I think the hardest problem that any of us face is the problem of pain and suffering. I’ve written in great detail about that but I will say one or two things. Read More ›
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Photo credit: KeresH / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).

“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published

The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises. Read More ›
Lake Erie
Photo: Lake Erie, by Jason Zhang [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Rights: “It Can’t Happen Here”?

Now former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, a very influential voice on the left, has endorsed the extreme ideological agenda. Read More ›
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Photo: Whanganui River, aka Te Awa Tupua, New Zealand, by Duane Wilkins [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Teen Vogue, National Geographic Push Nature Rights Further into Mainstream

The story gushes that nature rights will restore ancient indigenous wisdom, meaning it will undermine Western civilization. Read More ›
boreal chickadee
Photo: No glacier built this boreal chickadee; by David Mitchell [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution

They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve. Read More ›
Blue Wildebeest
Photo: Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), by Muhammad Mahdi Karim [GFDL 1.2], from Wikimedia Commons.

Ants, Wildebeest, Penguins, and More: A Zoo of Animal Designs

Don’t kick sand in the face of a wildebeest by joking that it looks like it was made by a committee. It might flex its muscles and charge. Read More ›
dog surfing
Photo credit: Guy Kawasaki [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry

The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory. Read More ›
Photo: Golden rice is on the right, by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Opposing “Golden Rice” Is Anti-Human

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if half a million destitute children could be saved each year from blindness or death from Vitamin A deficiency? Read More ›
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Photos: John West, teaches at the Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, by Daniel Reeves.

Great News — Extended Deadline for Summer Seminar Applications!

The Seminars have consistently borne great fruit. Graduate students, post-docs, even faculty are now doing research on intelligent design that will have an impact someday. Read More ›

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