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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team.

Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Read More ›
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Products from polyurethane on the exhibition stand. Industry
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Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

What is polyurethane and where is it used? It’s a type of plastic and it is pretty much everywhere: shoes, clothes, yoga mats, mattresses, couch cushions. Read More ›
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Surreal landscape with a split road and signpost arrows showing two different courses, left and right direction to choose. Road splits in distinct direction ways. Difficult decision, choice concept.
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Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Henry Söderlund, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Evolution’s Selection/Mutation Mechanism Fails

Do random mutational processes have the power to generate new base or amino acid sequences for natural selection to act upon within the time available? Read More ›
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Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?

Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Read More ›
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Is Daphnia Evolving at “Lightning Speed”?

If this is a prime example of the transformative power of evolution, the evidence is not at all impressive. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?

Biologist Michael Denton's structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things. Read More ›
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Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

No. 5 Story of 2023: Peer-Reviewed Paper Finds “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›
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Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Read More ›

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