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Try This Tree of Life Instead of Darwin’s

Take a look at a plant that takes nothing but gives everything. Why should it deliver so much good to so many? Read More ›
Unity and Diversity of Life
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Image: A scene from “The Unity and Diversity of Life” via University of Utah (screen shot).

Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center. Read More ›
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Photo: Atheist Lawrence Krauss and Christian theistic evolution Denis Lamoureux (r.) team up in a debate against Stephen Meyer, via Wycliffe College, University of Toronto (screen shot). 

Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication

Attacks by Christian theistic evolutionists have often followed the same patterns as those of their secular colleagues. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Nicolás Celaya [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

From Ewert’s Dependency Graph Paper – A “Gut Punch” to Darwin’s Tree?

I’m reminded again that the Bradley Center’s Robert Marks, among many other distinctions, was born to podcast. Read More ›
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Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”

Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo. Read More ›
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Photo: California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica), a carnivorous plant, by Noah Elhardt, via Wikimedia Commons.

More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›
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Of Species and Software: What Is a Dependency Graph?

Wisnton Ewert has developed a model to explain the pattern of similarities in different organisms which mimics how computer applications inherit software from a diverse range of lower-level modules. Read More ›
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Photo: A zebra finch, Dundee Wildlife Park, Murray Bridge, South Australia, by Peripitus [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›
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Photo: Tree of Life, at Walt Disney World Resort, by KirkMoorePhoto [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›
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Image: A traditional Tree of Life, via Wikimedia Commons.

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›

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