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How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›
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The Enchanted Sleep of Andreas Wagner

Apparently, Darwinian evolution doesn’t actually explain life. This may come as news to some people. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Read More ›
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Darwin Devolves

Despite Mr. Farina’s smug condescension and patronizing demeanor, he fails to mount a credible critique of Dr. Behe’s thesis. Read More ›
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Photo: E. coli bacteria, living a better life, by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›
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Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›
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Michael Behe, Ever Patient, Meets Atheist YouTuber TJump

As Behe and TJump discuss Lenski’s experiment, polar bears, and other matters, the commenters are floating in their own strange parallel reality. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›
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On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts

The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence. Read More ›
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Photo: A country junction, by Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design? Read More ›

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