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Papers: Argumentation and Surprise Are Best Ways to Do Good Science

I’m sure the authors of these papers didn’t mean to pay ID any compliments, but everything we’ve seen here closely tracks with intelligent design literature. Read More ›
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On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›
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At Long Last, Have New Fossil Finds Solved the Cambrian Enigma?

New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Read More ›
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Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas

A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Read More ›
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Paper in Cell Reports “Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”

This language is remarkable coming from a journal often considered the third most important in the world for biology. Read More ›
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Bee-ing There: Innovative Behavior by Bees

The design of organisms that have sufficient brain complexity and that produce these goal-directed behaviors requires an intelligent agent. Read More ›
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When Bumblebees Cheat at Games

Perhaps the most significant aspect of the findings is in light of the fact that the bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). Read More ›
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More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils

Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Read More ›
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Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders

Fear of validating opposition to materialism diminishes the scholarship of some scientific publications. Their authors need to get a grip. Read More ›
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The Prescient Günter Bechly: New Paper Doesn’t Negate the Cambrian Explosion

Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian. Read More ›

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