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New Book Offers a Fresh Test for Human Origins: Explain Your Own Body

Whatever other challenges it may introduce in our lives, money has this virtue: it doesn’t lie. Read More ›
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Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›
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Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

Icefish, aka the family Channichthydiae, survive at 0oC in the Southern Ocean by maintaining blood viscosity at the set point of 3.27 centipoise. Read More ›
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The Non-Computable Human

An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions to accomplish a task. A recipe for German chocolate cake is an algorithm. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Ignaz Semmelweis, Budapest, by Tim Ellis via Flickr (cropped).

Listen: Ignaz Semmelweis Against the “Experts”

It’s just one of many historical instances of experts clinging to an old paradigm in the face of contrary scientific evidence they don’t like. Read More ›
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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Read More ›
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Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Read More ›
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Leonard Sax on Intelligent Design and the “Ambiguity of the Evidence”

Stephen Meyer offers but does not seek to compel the choice to affirm a transcendent origin of the universe. Read More ›
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Following the Science, Doctors Joined the Nazis “In Droves”

There is a tendency to sanctify the medical profession, with the white coat serving as an icon of wisdom, compassion, and morality. Read More ›
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Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide?

That process is unfolding in Washington State, where a new bill would let non-doctors be part of the assisted suicide bureaucratic process. Read More ›

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