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Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by J. Nathan Matias, via Flickr (cropped).

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Read More ›
hedgehog
Photo: A hedgehog, by Gibe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›
Moses with the Tables of the Law
Image: Moses with the Tables of the Law, by Guido Reni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse: Darwin’s Hedgehog Searches for Purpose

For Ruse, “Darwin is like Moses” who “led his children [himself among them] to the Promised Land but never got there himself.” Read More ›
homo erectus
human origins
Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Misconceptions about Misconceptions: Examining a Citation of My Work

The citation is to one of my earliest writings on the topic of human origins, an article I published in an old ID journal. Read More ›
Hitchens Lennox
Photo: Screenshot from John Lennox's debate with Christopher Hitchens.

Atheist Christopher Hitchens: Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

Following Denyse O’Leary, I referred earlier to the curious but, on reflection, not surprising messy nature of the “magic” numbers that rule our universe. Read More ›
Behe and Mousetrap
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Excerpt: Darwinism and Design

Much of the difficulty here arises in the differing standards that different disciplines have for what constitutes an “explanation.” Read More ›
Evolution News
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The Solution to Fake News about Intelligent Design

Just a few days ago, a former atheist endorsed Evolution News as the “best place” to read about topics relating to science, design, Darwinism, and faith. Read More ›
Hawking zero gravity
Hawking zero gravity
Stephen Hawking in 0-gravity. Photo credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network, via Wikimedia Commons.

From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking in Three Catastrophic Steps

Nothing is more poisonous, for the young and the old alike, than the perception that the smart money is all on atheism. Of course, it’s not. Read More ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›

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