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Farewell to Jonathan Wells, Iconoclastic Scientist

His work resulted in forcing textbook publishers to correct their own work, a task they and their media enablers bitterly resented. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›
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Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›
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Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Read More ›
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Five Years Ago, Yale’s David Gelernter Gave Up on Darwin

David Gelernter is one of a growing number of scientists and thinkers bold enough to look beyond a Darwinian paradigm. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is the Cutting Edge

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with a podcast. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. Read More ›
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Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›
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Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing. Read More ›
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The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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