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Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science Now Gone from Multiple Sites

The lack of scrutiny and skepticism by professional academics reflects a crisis of its own. Read More ›
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Neanderthal armed with lance, their part in Homo Sapiens Anthropology and Darwinian Theory.
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Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, and Needs Them Badly

Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man. Read More ›
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Behe’s Bombshell, Thirty Years Later

Back in the 1990s, scientists were just starting to discover that virtually all cellular processes were powered by molecular machines. Read More ›
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Hey, Great News! Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses

What about attempts to test their virulence in humans? The approach in the Stanford lab sure sounds like a new form of gain-of-function research to me. Read More ›
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Epigenetics and the Arts Lover

Here is yet another clue about how we are both spiritual and physical beings. The two realms are connected in mysterious and remarkable ways. Read More ›
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Want the Public to Trust Science Again? In Four Lessons, Here’s How NOT to Do It

Ethan Siegel’s approach to public discussion of science is common enough: the exalted scientist reaches down to the ignorant masses. Read More ›
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For Extraterrestrial Life, All Credit to a Creator

As Casey Luskin reminds us, technology-using aliens would — by the intent of the cosmic design — need to live on a planet like ours with a physiology like ours. Read More ›
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In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Read More ›
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On the BGV Theorem and Eternal Cyclic Cosmology

The beginning of the universe doesn’t need to be singular, so doubts about a singularity don’t need to translate into doubts about a beginning. Read More ›
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The Story, and the Meaning, of Everything

The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Read More ›

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