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Eye-design

Looking for Things to Be Grateful For? Look No Further Than…Your Eyes

We take them for granted, but our ability to interact with the world through vision is beyond remarkable. Read More ›
Neanderthal-Museum

The Evolution of Neanderthal Spin

If evolutionary theory is true, there were millions of intermediate hominids between our nearest fully ape-like ancestor and ourselves. Read More ›
UC Berkeley

Meeting Phil Johnson at Berkeley

As a biology graduate student, I had seen first-hand some of the alleged evidence for the “fact” of common descent. Read More ›
caterpillars

Peppered Moths and More: Intelligent Design Takes Ownership of Evolution Icons

Darwinians never had a rightful claim to them in the first place. Read More ›
Darwinizing Beauty

Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›
Eye design

This Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

We take them for granted, but our ability to interact with the world through vision is beyond remarkable. Read More ›
Darwin Tree
Image: Darwin’s Tree (1837), a sketch from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and Common Descent

A reader asks, “I was just wondering why some fellows at Discovery believe in ID but still hold to common descent.“ Read More ›
Peppered Moth
Photo: A peppered moth, by Andy Phillips, via Flickr (cropped).

Listen: Dead Peppered Moths Can’t Evolve

The science of peppered moth evolution has been shown to be false. But the pictures and the claims are persuasive. Read More ›
Junk DNA
Photo credit: Hongtao Chen, Princeton University (screen shot), via EurekAlert!

Princeton Researchers Watch “Junk DNA” at Work

In “real time” they show the function of an enhancer in switching a gene from off to on. Read More ›

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