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De-Humanizing Neanderthals: A Darwinist Dog that Won’t Hunt

Growing evidence suggests Neanderthals buried their dead, employed technology, and had a brain size equal to or even slightly larger than ours. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Casey Luskin examines the evidence. Read More ›
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Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Read More ›
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Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science

Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point. Read More ›
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Photo: Neptune, photographed by Voyager 2, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Rabbi Moshe Averick: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, and shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›
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Photo: Casey Luskin, by Brian Gage.

Comparing Intelligent Design and the New Atheists: Who’s Ahead?

Dr. Luskin makes the interesting observation that the New Atheists took off initially following the Dover ruling, seemingly fueled by it. Read More ›
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Photo: Bronzitite, by Kevin Walsh, via Flickr.

Humble Beauty: Design in Rock Thin Sections, and More

Just imagine — in something as humble as a rock. Could, in fact, anything be humbler, more readily scorned until you look a little closer? Read More ›
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Rabbi Moshe Averick Deflates the Multiverse, and the New Atheists

Rabbi Averick shares his spirited takedown of the multiverse theory for the origin of life, and dismantles the “God of the Gaps” objection to ID. Read More ›
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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