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Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›
surprise
Photo credit: Shubham Dhage on Unsplash.

How Universal Common Descent Survives Failed Predictions

The prediction Paul Nelson discusses here is that there would turn out to be a single universal genetic code. Read More ›
sand castle
Photo credit: Phil Hearing via Unsplash.

Darwin’s Rhetorical Foundation of Sand: Theological Utilitarianism

Evolutionary theory, argued in the way that Darwin and many of his followers argue the case, is fundamentally theology-based. Read More ›
Galileo
Image: Galileo Galilei in 1636, by Justus Sustermans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Read More ›
Sophia
Photo: Sophia the robot, by tk.

Robert J. Marks on Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Read More ›
Rafting monkey
Photo: Rafting monkey, by Jdlrobson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›
CRISPR
Image credit: NIH Image Gallery, via Flickr (public domain).

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Read More ›
nebula IC 2631
Photo: Nebula IC 2631, by NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Casey Luskin: The Irony of Theistic Evolution

The Christian or Jewish theistic evolutionist actually goes a step further than arch-atheist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
cookies
Photo credit: Tijana Drndarski via Unsplash.

Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

Why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Doug Axe’s research? Read More ›
cave-painting
Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There

Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation. Read More ›

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