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Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›
Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
Photo: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya, by Taleed Brown, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stifling Opposition Is the Real “Anti-Science”

In the Great Barrington Declaration, three noted epidemiologists questioned the wisdom of societal shutdowns and keeping children out of school. Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2023: Another “Vestigial” Organ Has “Absolutely Critical” Functions

Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Read More ›
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Thanks to Optimal Design, Eyes and Brain Give a Glimpse of the Future

Although the brain can process images at breakneck speed, there are physical limits to how fast neural impulses can travel from the eye to the brain. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›
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Four Troublesome Trend Lines for Evolution

Taken as a totality, they make “zero sense in the context” of classic evolutionary theory. Read More ›
human yolk sac
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Another “Vestigial” Organ Turns Out to Have “Absolutely Critical” Functions: The Human Yolk Sac

Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Read More ›
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humpback whale
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Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? Read More ›
Andreas Vesalius
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Fascia, Your Body’s Fashionable “New” Organ

It’s not often that a new functional organ is found in the human body, considering that everything has been dissected and drawn for centuries. Read More ›
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#9 Story of 2021: Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Have a Poor Track Record

For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›

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