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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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Photo: Darwin finch, by Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dismantling the Icons of Evolution

I invited Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Read More ›
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Photo: Jonathan and Lucy Wells, by Marcos Eberlin.

Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented. Read More ›
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Photo: Medium tree finch, by Jody O'Connor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin's finch, by Victor Gleim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course

How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism? Read More ›
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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 ›
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Photo: Darwin's finch, by Victor Gleim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Natural Selection

When the drought ended and the rains returned, however, food was plentiful, and the average beak size returned to normal. Read More ›
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Peppered Moths and More: Intelligent Design Takes Ownership of Evolution Icons

Darwinians never had a rightful claim to them in the first place. Read More ›
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Peppered Hares — An Emerging Evolutionary Icon

Some hares turn white in winter where it’s snowy, but remain brown in winter where it’s mild. What does that have to do with Darwinian evolution? Read More ›

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