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Evolutionary Flimflam: Watch Out for These Common Parlor Tricks in Science Reporting

I suspect the average person comes to accept modern evolutionary theory through a near-constant drip of pro-evolution propaganda. Read More ›
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From Tom Gilson, Rhetorical Advice for Opponents of Intelligent Design

Getting ID theory right instead of criticizing a made-up straw man would be a good start. Read More ›
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Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Read More ›
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The Galileo Affair — A Durable Myth

The problem with science, as Del Ratzsch has pointed out, is that it is done by people. Read More ›
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Intelligence Is Not Magic. It’s a Cause We Know.

A lesson on how to make miracles look like simple everyday occurrences. Read More ›
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From the Craig-Carroll Encounter, Discerning the Next Move on the Atheist Intellectual Chessboard

As you may know, William Lane Craig debated physicist Sean Carroll in New Orleans last weekend. Read More ›
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Karl Giberson’s Scientism Refuses to Die, but It Should

"Science is a self-correcting process," Giberson assures us. Where have we heard that before? Read More ›
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What Textbooks Say about the “Randomness” at the Heart of Darwinian Theory

Plantinga has decided that modern evolution is whatever he chooses to make it by citing his favored sources. Read More ›

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