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Haeckel’s Embryo Drawings Make Cameos in Proposed Texas Instructional Materials

One would have thought the outcry after Icons of Evolution would have been enough to send a message to textbook publishers to stop using these inaccurate drawings as evidence for evolution. But it wasn't. Read More ›
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Glaring Bloopers Found in Proposed Texas Science Curricular Materials

Bogus embryo drawings, long-debunked claims about tonsils, and outdated information from a 1950s experiment highlight the glaring bloopers found in proposed science instructional materials for Texas. Read More ›

Digging Into Granville Sewell’s Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenging Darwinian Evolution

Dr. Sewell is fully aware of the standard objections to the classical version of the second law argument, but his thesis is not the classic unsophisticated version of the argument. Read More ›

Responding to John Wise’s Table Pounding at Southern Methodist University

There’s an old saying in the law that goes like this: When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the facts are not on your side, pound the table. If the responses to Discovery Institute’s recent conference at Southern Methodist University (SMU) are any indication, the facts are not on the side of anti-ID faculty at SMU. To be more precise, SMU biology lecturer John Wise wrote a letter to the SMU Daily, co-authored with SMU anthropology professor Ronald Wetherington, which made no less than 8 express or implied accusations of “dishonesty” against Discovery Institute.*** In 7 instances they claimed ID is pseudoscience or religion.*** Quite a feat for an under-700 word op-ed. His online response is Read More ›

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