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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Photo: A ground pangolin, native to Africa, by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (Manis temminckii) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature’s Foresight: Pangolins, Giraffes, Porcupines, and More

Engineers designing a car have to plan for all kinds of conditions the car might encounter. Read More ›
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Chaffee, Sewell: “Evolution — More Certain Than Gravity?”

“Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate.” 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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Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›
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Photo: Louisiana State Capitol, by joevare, via Flickr.

Listen: Wade Warren on 10th Anniversary of LSEA

The LSEA gave teachers freedom to teach about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Thomists
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.design.

On Thomistic Evolution, New Book by Fr. Michael Chaberek Is a Debate-Changer

Professor Logan Gage says Fr. Chaberek’s book shows how “Thomistic” evolution contradicts Aquinas. Read More ›
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Photo: An Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), by James St. John, via Flickr.

Bechly: Why the Phenomenon of Living Fossils Is Under “Massive Attack”

If you ever encounter a horseshoe crab on the beach, you are a looking at a creature that would not have appeared out of place hundreds of millions of years ago. Read More ›
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Photo: U.S. Marshalls with a witness under protection, by United States Marshals Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design’s Witness Protection Program

Yesterday I was involved in negotiating email contact between an ID proponent in academia and a professor who’s not an ID proponent. Read More ›

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