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Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”

Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›
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February 8! 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

From the smallest honeybee to the greatest whale, planet Earth is swarming with creatures of all shapes and sizes — each designed for their habitat. Read More ›
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Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion

In three papers, scientists babble about irrelevant details but ignore the main question: the origin of new genetic information for new body plans and organs. Read More ›
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What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›
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Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
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Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›
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2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›
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Progress Since the Sternberg Smithsonian Saga 20 Years Ago

For decades, opponents of intelligent design derided the theory as unscientific because it hadn’t been published in peer-reviewed science journals. Read More ›
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Nobel Prize vs. the Peppered Myth

Winners of the Nobel Prize this year have undercut the Darwinian explanation for industrial melanism. Read More ›
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A First Meeting with Jonathan Wells

When physicians express doubts about Darwin, we are quickly reminded of that famous remark of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Read More ›

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