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Wallace's flying frog
Photo: Wallace's flying frog, via Wikimedia Commons.

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›
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Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Read More ›
ATP Synthase
Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

Can New Proteins Evolve?

What enables a long chain of linked amino acids to perform highly specific molecular functions with machine-like precision? Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Evolution Is Here!

As animator “Long Story” puts it in his video, the claim is an example of evolutionary equivocation”: “The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth.” Read More ›
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Apocalypse Now — More Things Scientists Would Like You to Forget 

We must never confuse scientific consensus with science. Science is inquiry. Consensus is cloture of inquiry. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›

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