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Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›
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Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›
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Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›
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No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›
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Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›
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Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›
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The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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