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Physics Nobel Prize Invites Snark from the Anti-ID Peanut Gallery

Insofar as Peebles’s work helps to strengthen the evidence for a cosmic beginning, it is actually part of the argument for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: Oxytricha trifallax, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study

Explaining this sort of phenomenon by slight, successive modification, as Darwin envisaged, seems problematic. Read More ›
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Skepticism About Darwinian Evolution Grows as 1,000+ Scientists Share Their Doubts

Over 1,000 doctoral scientists from around the world have signed a statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Princeton Researchers Watch “Junk DNA” at Work

In “real time” they show the function of an enhancer in switching a gene from off to on. Read More ›
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Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”

A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›
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Transhumanism: A Wail of Despair in the Night

Transhumanists seek to “seize control of human evolution” by harnessing the naked power of biotech, cyber tech, and computer tech. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Photo: Medium ground finch, Galápagos Islands, by Charlesjsharp (Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Zombie Watch: Debunked Finches Re-Emerge to Validate Darwin

Another paper regurgitates a myth that was thoroughly debunked by Jonathan Wells in Zombie Science. Read More ›
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Bottom-Up Bottoms Out

Materialist attempts to model the construction of hierarchical organization from the bottom up collapse into a heap of unanswered questions. Read More ›

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