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Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson

Of course, an allergy to conceding error is not unique to ID opponents, but it is typical of them. Read More ›
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For Selling Evolution, a Little Knowledge Is a Glorious Thing

Many Americans reject evolution, a recent paper suggests, because they’re uninformed.  Read More ›
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenges Darwinian Evolution

Over recent months, papers challenging key elements of Darwinian theory — the kind of papers which are supposed not to exist — have increasingly been slipping through the net and finding their way into the peer-reviewed literature. One such paper, “Is gene duplication a viable explanation for the origination of biological information and complexity?,” authored by Joseph Esfandier Hannon Bozorgmeh and published online last week in the journal, Complexity, challenges the standard gene duplication/divergence model regarding the origin of evolutionary novelty. The abstract reports, All life depends on the biological information encoded in DNA with which to synthesize and regulate various peptide sequences required by an organism’s cells. Hence, an evolutionary model accounting for the diversity of life needs to Read More ›

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