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Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk. Read More ›
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Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Read More ›
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Noncoding “Junk” DNA Is Important for Limb Formation

Some defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy would have us believe that we’ve only found a handful of non-coding DNA sequences that have function. Read More ›
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Researchers: It Exists; Therefore, It Evolved

According to some reporters and Darwinists, evolutionary theory today needs no more confirmation than existence. Evolution is a fact, remember? Read More ›
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Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?

Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function

Design predictions rise as evolutionary assumptions fall. The junk DNA myth is, for all practical purposes, falsified. Read More ›
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A Watch on a Heath — But What a Watch!

Recently I had the opportunity to see Prague’s famed astronomical clock, the oldest still-working astronomical clock in the world. It is truly phenomenal. Read More ›
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Genetic Surprises Support Intelligent Design Claims

Several news items reinforce ideas advanced by ID advocates regarding junk DNA, irreducible complexity, and human uniqueness. Read More ›

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