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flat-fish
Photo: A flat-fish, by Kevin Mc Loughlin via Pixabay .

Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.” Read More ›
syringes
Photo credit: Jeremy Bezanger via Unsplash.

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›
Biston-betularia
Photo: Larvae of peppered moths, by Noor MAF, Parnell RS, Grant BS, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Peppered Moths: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

At most, the story shows a change in the proportions of two varieties of the same species. Read More ›
Andreas Vesalius
Image: Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), via Wikimedia Commons.

Fascia, Your Body’s Fashionable “New” Organ

It’s not often that a new functional organ is found in the human body, considering that everything has been dissected and drawn for centuries. Read More ›
Flat_tire_2
Photo credit: Stian Martinsen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory. Read More ›
Cambrian 16
All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›
heart
Photo credit: camilo jimenez, via Unsplash.

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›
COVID-19
coronavirus
Photo credit: Airman 1st Class Alexis Christian, via Peterson Air Force Base.

#5 Story of 2020: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›
Michael-Denton
Photo credit: Nathan Jacobson.

Michael Denton Identifies TWO Intelligent Designs in the Universe

“The whole world works together in the service of man,” as Francis Bacon wrote. Denton revives this ancient insight with modern rigor. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

Doctor’s Diary: The Wonder of Your Body’s Genetic Instructions

Imagine the New York Public Library cutting every manual in half daily, or more often, and sending every month entire halves to a library in London. Read More ›

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