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Darwin Is on the Roof — New Book from Michael Behe, Available Now

The public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory. It wasn’t planned this way, but it is how things are playing out. Read More ›
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Politicized Science Can Be Deadly; Time to Restore Integrity

Imagine there was a pandemic and people found themselves greeting statements from scientists, conveyed by the media, with increasing jaded skepticism. Read More ›
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Citrate Death Spiral

Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski and collaborators have just published a terrific new paper. Read More ›
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New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›
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Judge Michael Behe’s Case for Intelligent Design Yourself

“Darwin’s mechanism is dominated by ‘Poison-Pill’ mutations: positively-selected, loss-of-function mutation.” It “squanders genetic information for short-term gain.” Read More ›
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Helpful Devolutionary Mutations Are Rapid and Unavoidable: Paper Reinforces Darwin Devolves

There is simply no way for any unguided, unintelligent account of the unfolding of life to avoid the bane of helpful degradative mutations. Read More ›
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Episode 4 of Secrets of the Cell — Broken Wolves and other Evolutionary Conundrums

Atheist biologist Richard Dawkins and others have pointed to man’s best friend as confirmation that evolution creatively builds new species. Read More ›
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Critic Josh Swamidass Meets Michael Behe Tonight at Texas A&M

Someone had a clever idea: stage a debate between biologist Michael Behe and his critic Joshua Swamidass on “God and/or Evolution?” Read More ›
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#1 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Informed by Discovery Authors, Yale’s David Gelernter Rejects Darwinism

He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science. Read More ›
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Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever

Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data. Read More ›

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