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Triassic Pollen
Photo: Angiosperm-like pollen Type I from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland, modified after Hochuli & Feist-Burkhardt 2013 in Frontiers, CC BY 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. Read More ›
sockeye salmon
Photo: Sockeye salmon, by Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Closer Look at the Science of Purpose

You cannot see what you are not looking for. You cannot find Br'er Rabbit until you look into the briar patch. Read More ›
baby
Photo credit: Tembinkosi Sikupela via Unsplash.

Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Read More ›
Norm Macdonald
Photo: Norm Macdonald, by Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Norm Macdonald’s God Hypothesis 

Norm casually took on the entire scientific community for “refusing to explore” what he considered the “fundamental question” of God’s existence. Read More ›
medium tree finch
Photo: Medium tree finch, by Jody O'Connor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Darwin’s Finches”: Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model

Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.” Read More ›
Gilson Lents

On Fall Foliage, Nathan Lents Comes Up Short

There is nothing in the word “gift” that entails its having been given identically to all persons at all times. That’s not hard, actually. Read More ›
science as fantasy
Image: Midsummer Eve, 1908, by Edward Robert Hughes [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

On Fantasy in Modern Science

An attribute of a good sci-fi story is that it should open new vistas for the imagination while, at the same time, not requiring the reader to put up with the preposterous. Read More ›
Sahara Desert
Undeniable
Photo: Saraha desert, by Luca Galuzzi, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Dentist in the Sahara: Doug Axe on the Rarity of Proteins Is Decisively Confirmed

In a previous article I described the evidence that cooption faces insurmountable mathematical challenges in explaining the origins of such complex molecular machines as the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
Great Minds
Dr. Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved, via Discovery Institute

Great Minds: Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved on the American Miracle

If the history of the United States is an illustration of intelligent design at work in worldly affairs, what’s the purpose behind the design? Read More ›
Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas?

Free Speech or “Better Speech”?

What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting. Read More ›

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