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Premiere: New Behe Video Explores “Secrets” of Blood Clotting

Every time you cut yourself on a rose thorn while gardening, something amazing happens. One might even say it’s miraculous. Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist

Darwinists have been led by their philosophy to misjudge human anatomy. Lents, in his fervor, “ignores biomechanics research,” “ignores engineering research.” Read More ›
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Photo: A replica of Galileo's telescope, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Keas: Faith, Science, and the Phases of Venus

Dr. Keas explains, among things, the role that Venus with its phases, like those of our Moon, played in advancing astronomy into the modern age. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Linda Tanner, via Flickr (cropped).

Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity. Read More ›
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Image: A dependency graph, by c4ristian, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›
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Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›
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Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Julielangford, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon

Erika is pursuing her Master’s of Research in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation and is the creator of hundreds of punchy, entertaining YouTube videos. Read More ›
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Marks, Dembski: AI Hype and the “Illusion of Possibility”

The materialist agenda is served by AI hype, while the human mission is damaged. And that is what is at stake. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Sophia the Robot with Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of United Nations, by UNCTAD, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Read More ›

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