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Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic? 

Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer on the Digital Information that Drives Life

There’s a significant shift underway, says Dr. Meyer. Darwinism is in trouble, and ID is attracting high-profile converts in the scientific community. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist

Yes, ideas of a multiverse are taken “extremely seriously.” And those are obviously intended to counter the theistic implications of the familiar cosmology. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer on the Intellectual Shift Away from Darwinism

Darwinism is in trouble, and intelligent design is attracting high-profile converts in the scientific community. Read More ›
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Is This a Paradigm Shift? 

Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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“Beyond Evolution”: Where James Tour and Stephen Meyer Disagree

When you plant an inert, seemingly dead thing — a seed — in the ground, and it grows to be a flower, what has just happened? Life has happened. But why? Read More ›
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Three Types of Science: Fantasy Science

One example of fantasy science, according to biophysicist Kirk Durston, is the multiverse. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and Justin Brierley on the Mainstreaming of Intelligent Design

Justin Brierley asked whether the “stigma” attached to ID had faded. Meyer smiled and answered very much in the affirmative. Read More ›
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On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo 

"On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system." Read More ›

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