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Best Books of the Year — Discovery Institute Takes Honors in World Magazine’s “Origins” Category

The year's top “best” book is Tom Bethell’s Darwin’s House of Cards (Discovery Institute Press). Read More ›
E coli
Photo: E. coli, by Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Purpose and Desire Meets Jerry Coyne: The Evolution of Homeostasis?

Consider one of the simplest kinds of homeostasis — just one part of the regulation of sugar metabolism in E coli. Read More ›
Hobson
Image: Thomas Hobson, National Portrait Gallery, London, via Wikicommons.

Scott Turner on Biology’s Hobson’s Choice – Time Running Out on Pre-publication Deal!

"The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all." Read More ›
Bernard laboratory
Scott Turner
Photo: Location of Claude Bernard's laboratory in Paris, 1847-1878, by Jebulon (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist J. Scott Turner’s Rediscovery – How Darwinism Fatally Overlooks What Life Is

Intellectual discovery is often a matter of rediscovery: reviving insights that were available before but overlooked, forgotten, or neglected. Read More ›

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