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Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›
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Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Fossil Damselflies Challenges Darwinism

In the hard sciences such explanations that can explain everything and rule out no possible observations are usually considered empirically empty and worthless. Read More ›
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Biologist Advocates Biology Without Species; What Could Go Wrong?

So what is real, according to Brent Mishler? Only phylogeny — the tree of evolutionary descent. Read More ›
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Photo: Mexican free-tailed bats, by dizfunkshinal, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Systematics (the Relationships Between Organisms)

The re-usage of highly similar and complex parts in widely different organisms in non-treelike patterns is best explained by the action of an intelligent agent. Read More ›
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Will Earth BioGenome Project Vindicate Darwin?

Compare the latest project to sequence everything to other megaprojects that may or may not answer evolutionary questions. Read More ›
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Darwin’s John the Baptist

Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day. Read More ›
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Monkey House
Photo: Bronx Zoo, Monkey House, by Antigng / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Students Sue School District for $12 Million Over “Monkey See” Photos

“There can’t be any question about what they meant. Remember, this is a zoology class. Evolution is taught.” Read More ›
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Image: Bacillus subtilis, identified by Bapteste and his co-authors as a possible age-distorter, by WMrapids, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Eric Bapteste on External Genetic Change In “Age-Distorters”

Species are surrounded by other species (often sharing the same body), and therefore may interfere with one another’s fitness. Read More ›
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Tesla factory
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“A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design”: The Study Guide

"Imagine engineers were able to design cars with car building factories inside, with the ability to build new cars with car building factories inside them." Read More ›

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