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Richard Lenski
Photo: Richard Lenski, via Veritasium (screen shot).

Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution

Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.” Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
guns on USS Iowa
Photo: Guns on USS Iowa, by PH1 Jeff Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Closer Look at the T3SS Reveals Design

If one visualizes the recoil action of large guns on ships as they fire, that is perhaps what the EA (export apparatus) is doing for the T3SS. Read More ›
ATP Synthase
Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

New Research Finds Molecular Machines Are Even More Amazing than Behe Realized

With better imaging and analysis techniques, details about icons of design are coming into clearer focus. The icons are looking better than ever. Read More ›
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Image credit: Execution of Marie Antoinette, Unknown author / Public domain.

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Read More ›
New York Times
Photo: New York Times HQ, by Adam Jones via Flickr (cropped).

Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew

Advocates of intelligent design have experienced the lengths to which upholders of the “predetermined narrative” will go to punish dissent. Read More ›
Jeremy-England

Courage, Courtesy, and the Origin of Life — Congratulations to Physicist Jeremy England

As Yale’s David Gelernter has said of Darwinism, to challenge it is to “take your life in your hands.” Read More ›
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In the Beginning: How the Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Got Their Start

The very first Seminar, held in July 2007, had twelve enthusiastic students and gave us a solid start. Read More ›
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Lukianoff Optimistic About Academic Freedom, Gives Advice for Concerned Citizens

If implemented, would these ideas have succored those who faced discrimination in universities, including Eric Hedin, Scott Minnich, or Dean Kenyon? Read More ›
Dissent Statement

Why Discovery Institute Has Asked Some Scientists Not to Sign the Darwin Dissent List

This is what I mean when I say the list of a thousand plus vastly understates the number of scientists who are skeptical of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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