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Big Bird
Big Bird
Photo credit: Big Bird, by P.R. Grant and B.R. Grant, via Princeton University.

Big Bird — Evolution’s “Smoking Gun”?

Against the backdrop of research of Princeton’s Peter and Rosemary Grant, Darwin’s finches are among the most hyped illustrations of evolution in action. Read More ›
Beijing
eugenics
Photo: Summer Palace, Beijing, by wtaochina2001, via Pixabay.

China Shows Eugenics Is Not a Thing of the Past

As a tyranny, China is a Wild West of sorts for unethical science, with the government and its researchers answering to no one. Read More ›
James Tour
James Tour
Photo: James Tour, speaking at University of Waterloo, via YouTube.

James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry

A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want. Read More ›
Bechly Stuttgart
Günter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, via Discovery Institute.

Meet Günter Bechly

So far, our readers have only had the opportunity to meet paleontologist Günter Bechly in his writing here and in a fairly short segment from a recent documentary. Read More ›
rain
water
Photo: Rain on holiday traffic, Seattle, WA, by Wonderlane, via Flickr.

Rainy Holiday Weekend? Don’t Let It Get You Down — Appreciate the Wonder of Water

How is water the “universal solvent”? What is viscosity? How does water keep temperatures stable? Read More ›
Jovian Tempest
information
Image: "Jovian Tempest," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›
CRISPR
genetic engineering
Image credit: Ernesto del Aguila III, NHGRI [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

What Does Gene-Editing with CRISPR Portend for Bioethics?

Wesley Smith describes a range of consequences of viewing human beings as resources to be manipulated and exploited. Read More ›
leaf
Michael Denton
Photo credit: Jon Sullivan (PdPhoto) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Remarkable Coincidences in Photosynthesis

From the specific energy of visible light to the unique properties of water, this degree of improbability screams DESIGN. Read More ›
HITLER
Hitler
Photo: Hitler in 1931, via Recuerdos de Pandora/Flickr.

Was Hitler a Creationist? Sure, Just Like Darwin

Hitler in his writing spoke of a “creator,” and a “Lord,” as well as using terms strongly suggestive of Darwinian thinking. Read More ›
Hitler's religion
Hitler's religion
Photo: Hitler in 1941, via Wikicommons.

Complexity and Contradictions: Richard Weikart on Hitler’s Religion

There’s something deeply refreshing about scholarship that acknowledges the complexity of its subject. Read More ›

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