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Gilson: How a Teacher Wrecked Biology for Me, and How I Got Past It

His biology teacher could take an entire class period to tell Charles Darwin’s life story, and then repeat the same class, virtually verbatim. Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Read More ›
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Richard Sternberg on the Trail of the Immaterial Genome

Dr. Sternberg speaks on his mathematical/logical work showing the difficulty of identifying genes purely with material phenomena. Read More ›
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Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West

Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Read More ›
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Photo: Skull of "Mrs. Ples," by José Braga; Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Casey Luskin Debunks a Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

Luskin and host Eric Anderson call evolutionary theory to task for being overly supple, offering just-so stories to explain a behavior AND its opposite. Read More ›
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Will AI “Own the World”? Robert J. Marks Talks with Laura Ingraham

In response to those who believe AI will take over the world, Marks says, "Look at history." Read More ›
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Nancy Pearcey on the Politics of Darwinism, Then and Now

The problem with wedding Darwinism and theism is that ultimately it turns one’s understanding of God into something that is largely private and subjective. Read More ›
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When Darwinism Came to Africa, Horrors Ensued

Olufemi Oluniyi tells the story of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, who, guided by Social Darwinism, “sought to produce a race of super-soldiers for Stalin’s army.” Read More ›
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Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels

Casey Luskin rebuts the oft-repeated claim that the human and chimp genomes are 98-99 percent similar as surely resulted from Darwinian common descent. Read More ›

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