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Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›
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An Argument from Ignorance? 

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?

The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Read More ›
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John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›
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Andrew Klavan, Casey Luskin: Displaced Authority and Progressive Censorship

Klavan smells a rat when famous scientists like Richard Dawkins use displaced authority to make proclamations about science’s relationship with religion. Read More ›
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Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Read More ›
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Joe Rogan and Stephen Meyer Talk Science and Faith in New Interview

For more than three hours, Rogan asked questions about the scientific argument for the reality of God, as well as Meyer's reasons for believing the Bible. Read More ›

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