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New “Long Story Short” Video Addresses Challenges from Junk DNA Defenders

Of course, die-hard evolution defenders were not going to take these major shifts in thinking about “junk DNA” sitting down. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”

Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better. Read More ›
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How the Myth of Junk DNA Hindered Science

For decades, we’ve been told that only a tiny percentage of DNA is functional and that the vast majority is useless junk. Read More ›
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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›
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Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›
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Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism 

Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.” Read More ›
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›
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The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Genetics

Functionality for junk DNA is prevalent, and was successfully predicted by intelligent design.  Read More ›
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Dan Graur: The Core Rationale for Claiming “Junk DNA”

This explains why many researchers, who are fully on board with evolution, nonetheless ignore Graur’s advice. Read More ›
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Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›

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