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Andreas Vesalius
Image: Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), via Wikimedia Commons.

Fascia, Your Body’s Fashionable “New” Organ

It’s not often that a new functional organ is found in the human body, considering that everything has been dissected and drawn for centuries. Read More ›
Young Frankenstein
Image: Pencil sketch of Peter Boyle as Dr. Frankenstein's monster in Young Frankenstein.

Frankenstein and His Offspring

"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›
Satan
Image credit: Gustave Doré, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›
first cell
James Tour
Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›
first cell
James Tour
Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›
Simmons
Photo: CSC Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem.

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant? 

There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›

This Year’s ID Education Days Were a Smash Success

Many high school students are eager to go beyond the brief and airbrushed presentation of evolutionary theory found in their biology textbooks, and are full of questions. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Fred Hoyle, Institute of Astronomy, by Mark Hurn [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Fred Hoyle: Intelligent Design Advocate

It is widely known that Hoyle was a proponent of panspermia, the notion of intergalactic "seeding" of planet Earth. Read More ›

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