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Photo: METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, by loren chapman, via Flickr (cropped).

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Darwin, Group Think, and Confirmation Bias

How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy? Read More ›
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Conservation of Information — The Idea

Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef. Read More ›
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The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›
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Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Read More ›
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Yawn: Atheist YouTuber “Professor Dave” Rants about Intelligent Design

In the end, Farina’s potshots against intelligent design and Discovery Institute  completely miss their targets. Read More ›
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Photo: Telegraph operator, by Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Life, Not One Code but Many

It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code. Read More ›
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Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism

Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory. Read More ›
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Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind.  Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›

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