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“Crazy Stuff”? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem

The formulation “crazy stuff” of course implicitly suggests that this is a pseudo-problem invented by evil and stupid creationists. Read More ›
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Photo: Pakicetus and Ambulocetus by Thewissen 2009, via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail

These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism. Read More ›
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Image: Hexokinase, an enzyme; the original uploader was TimVickers at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
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Rosenhouse and Discrete Hypercube Evolution

Why have I just gone through this exercise with the 100-dimensional discrete hypercube, giving it the full track 2 monty? Two reasons. Read More ›
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Photo: Arabidopsis thaliana, © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

New Study in Nature Showing “Non-Random” Mutation Spells Trouble for Neo-Darwinism

The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Read More ›
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Read More ›
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Photo: Plato, Vatican Museum, by Dudva, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist

The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Luskin: The Dead Talk Back to Darwin

The “dreadful beasts, grinning knowingly,” have a message for evolutionists: “no further in this direction!” Read More ›
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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 ›
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Photo: Gulls of the family Laridae, by Oleg Bor, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Read More ›

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