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We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…

A synthetic cell lineage contrived by humans will (necessarily) need to copy what Nature has already done, or fail. Read More ›
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 2, “Judge Jones Is a Brilliant, Neutral Legal Scholar”

A full 90.9 percent of a key section was copied, either verbatim or nearly verbatim, from a brief submitted by the plaintiffs’ attorney. Read More ›
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AI Corruption of Science Papers Becomes Evident

Reliance on machine-written material may signal a long and continuing decline in the quality of research in many fields. Read More ›
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Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›
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Will Scientists Now Consider Occult as Science?

“My truth” or (for grammatical convenience) “private truth” is making serious headway against public truth. Read More ›
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Harvard President Is Out Thanks to Design Filter

William Dembski explains in an excellent new podcast interview with Christopher Sernaque. Read More ›
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Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting.  Read More ›
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Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?

Some think that math is invented. Evidence, though, points towards its discovery. Read More ›
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Louis Pasteur, in Memoriam

“There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.” Read More ›
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The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›

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