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Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Read More ›
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Misinformation About a Masterpiece: An Engineer Responds to a Colleague

"We have the anatomy department claiming the human spine is a bad design, whilst the engineering department is improving bridge design by copying it!" Read More ›
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Got Any Theories of Consciousness? Sure, About 325 of Them

Consciousness research may be a degenerating paradigm. Philosopher Imre Lakatos used the term to refer to a situation where science is not progressing. Read More ›
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If You Care About Faith, Bring on the Aliens, Mr. Spielberg!

Luskin: "If alien life does exist, and if it looks or works even remotely like human biology, then it did not arise by blind evolution." Read More ›
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New Physics Is Always Tentative; Here’s Why

The prime example of all difficulties for new theories in physics relates to the ultimate origin of everything. Read More ›
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Extraordinary: Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper Debate the God Hypothesis

I could say more on the subject, but much of it is in this fantastic conversation — "the toughest debate I've ever had," as Halper graciously says at the end. Read More ›
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What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›
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A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›
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Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Read More ›

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