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Photo: Beetles collected by Charles Darwin, Cambridge University, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Evolution Is Undeniable 

The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›
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Are Scientists Allowed to Consider Unscientific Explanations? 

Let’s consider a narrower field. Geology, as everyone knows, is concerned with the natural processes that act upon the earth. Read More ›
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Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›
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Fireweed: An Example of Intelligent Latent Design

The photo with fireweed in the foreground at the top of this article was taken by my father, Robert Hedin, at Mount Shuksan in Washington State. Read More ›
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Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›
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In Science, How “Assumed Atheism” Harms Religious Students

For all practical purposes, there seems to be little daylight today between methodological and metaphysical naturalism, at least in graduate science classes. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and Spencer Klavan on the Book of Nature: Is There an Author?

Intelligent design was the default scientific understanding of nature and the cosmos — until the hostile takeover by Darwinian materialism. Read More ›
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UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”

Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb. Read More ›
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Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins

Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. Read More ›
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Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People

A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading. Read More ›

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