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Words for Wednesday! Disentangling ID from Creationism

Yesterday on Stephen Meyer’s Facebook page we launched the new “Terminology Tuesday” feature, with a quick read about just what we mean by intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour, in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer, Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life!”

Rice University chemist James Tour is still on a roll in showing up the empty boasts of origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›
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Photo credit: All photos in this article are by Casey Luskin.

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›
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Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›
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Photo: Congress investigates UAPs, by U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”

Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer and Tour Complete Four-Part Seminar on Origin of Life: Will Professor Dave Watch?

If Professor Dave watched to the end, he would have to confront the fact that he deceptively conscripted biochemist Bruce Lipshutz as an expert witness. Read More ›
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Hands-On Chemistry Can’t Simulate Prebiotic Earth

Says Dr. Meyer, “Even the modest movement they get towards life seems to be intelligently designed at each step of the way." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Comparing Design Evidence in Physics Versus Biology — Is One Stronger than the Other?

The multiverse is nakedly an attempt to save atheism from science. Darwinian theory is less nakedly so. Read More ›

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