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A Doc Talks Human Blood Flow and Exquisitely Intelligent Design

Glicksman explains the hugely complex blood flow systems required to keep us clear-headed and alive even while doing everything from gymnastics to simply getting up in the morning. Read More ›
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Scientist Names Dragonfly Species after Behe. Gets Roasted. Shrugs.

Günter Bechly describes what’s remarkable about this stunning fossil, and explains some problems dragonflies pose for Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: U.S. Air Force/Carol Lawrence.

The Eye Evolution Simulation That Failed

Biologists Jonathan Wells and Ray Bohlin talk about a conversation that Dr. Wells imagined between evolutionists Richard Dawkins and Dan-Eric Nilsson Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Walcott Quary, Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.</p>

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›
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Bechly: Why the Phenomenon of Living Fossils Is Under “Massive Attack”

If you ever encounter a horseshoe crab on the beach, you are a looking at a creature that would not have appeared out of place hundreds of millions of years ago. Read More ›
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Hunter: With Darwinism, “The Theory Is Always Driving the Ideas In Spite of the Evidence”

Mitochondria, the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells, pose a powerful and newly acute problem for evolution. Read More ›
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Dembski and McDowell’s Understanding Intelligent Design: Ten Years On

Sean talks about changes over past decade: Everyone has a smartphone and can, quicker than ever, find someone taking the other side of an argument. Read More ›
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Douglas Axe: Lignin and the Coherent Design of the Ecosystem

Heretic co-author Matti Leisola has argued that lignin is a troubling case for Darwinian evolution Read More ›
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David Gelernter: “You Need To Know Who You Are To Begin With”

Knowing who you are, where you came from, is a central purpose of education, and frankly not only in the humanities but in biology. Read More ›
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Listen: West, Boyer, and the “Darwin Woodstock”

Dr. West shares a fascinating postscript to the story of German paleontologist Günter Bechly. Read More ›

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