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Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›
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Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›
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Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›
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Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions 

The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›
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Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›

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