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medium tree finch
Photo: Medium tree finch, by Jody O'Connor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›
Aquinas
Nautilus at S.E.A. Aquarium, Singapore
Photo credit: Shaun Low via Unsplash.

Revealing God’s Grandeur — Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Teachings of the Catholic Church

The last few chapters deal with subjects that theistic evolutionists like to use against ID: Aristotle, Aquinas, and randomness. Read More ›
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Photo: Harvard Museum of Natural History, by Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism, via Flickr (cropped).

Let’s Help Harvard Understand Intelligent Design

It was disappointing to see the inaccurate representation of ID, along with the poor scientific epistemology. Read More ›
common octopus
Photo credit: Martijn Klijnstra, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›
Chrismooreia-michaelbehei
Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, a fossil dragonfly species, 191 million years old, named in honor of ID scientist Michael Behe, by Günter Bechly.

Günter Bechly: Why the Fossil Record Points to Intelligent Design

He covers how “a lightbulb went on” for him about Darwinism, the fatal waiting time problem, why the ballyhooed extended synthesis fails to save the day for evolution, and more. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Survey Artificially Inflates the Percentage of Americans who “Accept Evolution”

Whether their question was chosen intentionally to inflate the degree of support for “evolution,” I cannot say. Read More ›
Parthenon
Photo: Parthenon, by George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Read More ›
Kepler-442b
Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson
Photo: Paul Nelson, by Nathan Jacobson.

Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?

An “engineering theory of evolution” might be one way of expressing what the ID proponents who participated in the CELS event were seeking. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?

That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively. Read More ›

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