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Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Read More ›
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Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›
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Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›
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Noncoding “Junk” DNA Is Important for Limb Formation

Some defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy would have us believe that we’ve only found a handful of non-coding DNA sequences that have function. Read More ›
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Five New Biology Papers Show Cracks in Darwin’s Foundation

Are there rumblings of discontent? Is it getting safer to question the claims of conventional neo-Darwinism? Read More ›
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Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the Study of Epidemics

The reality to which these scientists are “one step closer” is the fact that ID research is indispensable to medicine and biology.  Read More ›
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No Harm, No Foul — What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology?

Considering several recent papers shows that eliminating evolutionary words and concepts simplifies and improves scientific explanations.  Read More ›
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Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever

Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors 

It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›

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