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Taking Leave of Darwin
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Stephen Meyer on the Intellectual Shift Away from Darwinism

Darwinism is in trouble, and intelligent design is attracting high-profile converts in the scientific community. Read More ›
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The Story of Metals Points to Nature’s Foresight, Planning, Preparation

A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. But can a Darwinian process take the credit? Read More ›
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How Tycho Brahe Set an Unhelpful Precedent for Scientists

Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Kepler, his assistant. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin: The Miracle(s) of Metal

Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? Read More ›
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Three Types of Science: Fantasy Science

One example of fantasy science, according to biophysicist Kirk Durston, is the multiverse. Read More ›
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Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

Dr. Gonzalez discusses his experience of the 2024 total solar eclipse and his co-hosting of Discovery Institute’s eclipse watching event in Waxahachie, Texas. Read More ›
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Three Types of Science: Experimental Science

Kirk Durston says he has yet to find a true conflict between experimental, reproducible scientific observations and his religious faith. Read More ›
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Can Darwinian Evolution Be Rescued from Dogma?

Casey Luskin begins a conversation with two distinguished PhD scientists who are asking tough questions of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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Sleeping and Waking: A Designer’s Gift

Some scientists have posited that organisms came prepackaged to sleep, and that we only needed to evolve wakefulness. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Read More ›

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