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Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›
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Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig discuss randomness in natural selection and why randomness is such a controversial topic. Read More ›
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Event, May 13: The Heavens Declare

Paul Nelson and Brian DeVries will give special attention to how humans are able to detect design in nature. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Nathan Jacobson; photo of Jonathan Wells by Laszlo Bencze.

A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

First to speak is Dr. John West, Managing Director of the CSC. Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant AND understandable. Read More ›
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Gutsy and Loyal: The Qualities of Our Friend Jonathan Wells

Dr. Paul Nelson begins with an adventure he had with Dr. Wells: a poster presentation on evolution and development at the University of Chicago. Read More ›
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Paul Nelson: My Adventures with Jonathan Wells

In this first half of the conversation, Dr. Nelson takes listeners back to a famous meeting in the history of the modern intelligent design movement. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: Addressing Flaws in Population Dynamic Models 

Reframing genetic variation as falling into separate categories — random and non-random — could provide new insights into the history of life. Read More ›
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February 8! 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

From the smallest honeybee to the greatest whale, planet Earth is swarming with creatures of all shapes and sizes — each designed for their habitat. Read More ›
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Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
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No. 6 Story of 2024: Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›

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