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Meyer and Prager
Photo: Dennis Prager with Stephen Meyer. Source: Stephen Meyer.

#10 of Our Top Stories of 2018: How Meyer Turned Prager Around on Evolution

Oh, it’s very difficult to concede that you were mistaken about something. Especially, I would say, for males. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer, Axe: “Five Major Problems with Macro-Evolution”

There’s something very clarifying about seeing an argument laid out in crisp bullet points. Read More ›
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information theory
Photo: Claude Shannon, by DobriZheglov [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›
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Dennis Prager on Evolution: Stephen Meyer Turned Me Around

Oh, it’s very difficult to concede that you were mistaken about something. Especially, I would say, for males. Read More ›
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Photo: On his visit to South Africa, Brian Miller took the opportunity to pet a friendly cheetah.

Brian Miller Pets a Cheetah, an Icon of Intelligent Design

For your Labor Day enjoyment, Brian submits this photo of himself with Annabelle. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ddouk, via Flickr. 

For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›
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Image: Bone structure of a human hand, by Henry Gray (1918), Anatomy of the Human Body, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The “Botched” Human Body, Revisited

As a systems architect, I’ve spent decades designing and implementing large and complex systems of information systems. Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Walcott Quary, Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.</p>

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›
Do Not Feed Zombies 2
Image credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr., Eglin Air Force Base, Zombie Stomp 2015.

Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism 

Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science. Read More ›
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Image source: Wikimedia Commons.

Next Time I Need a Therapist, I’m Staying Away from Jeremy P. Shapiro

For remarkable blindness to his own “thinking errors,” Dr. Shapiro gets a prize. Read More ›

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