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Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Read More ›
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No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›
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No. 3 Story of 2024: Richard Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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No. 10 Story of 2024: Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is Cutting Edge

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with a podcast. Read More ›
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“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Read More ›
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On Giving Tuesday, Feelings Are Not Enough

Here was a believer, a very thoughtful one, who knew nothing about whether the God hypothesis can be defended on objective grounds. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin: The Origin and Uniqueness of Humans

Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim. Read More ›
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Atheist Richard Dawkins: Intelligent Design Is a “Scientific Hypothesis,” Though Mistaken

This is a remarkable response, granting the premise of arguments for intelligent design like those of Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Remembering Michael Ruse

Paradoxically, he was ardent in his Darwinism, mild in his atheism, and fair-minded to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist

The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life. Read More ›

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