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26May 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

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Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Source

25May 2023 by Post

From Professor Dave, This Sounds Like Incitement to Violence

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If you're enjoying the certainty that you've triumphed in a debate, you don't then, even in a weird "just kidding" way, post fantasies about murder. Source

25May 2023 by Post

James Tour Focused on Science, Dave Farina on Character Assassination: So, Who Wins?

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Professor Dave’s attacks undercut his credibility as a spokesman for his own view. If he had the truth on his side, there’s no reason he would behave this way. Source

23May 2023 by Post

A War of Words? How to Tell Who Won the Tour-Farina Debate

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Over three subsequent posts, I’m going to elaborate on three reasons that we can see that Tour won, based upon a rhetorical analysis of the debate. Source

23May 2023 by Post

Film Festival 2023 — “Günter Bechly Explains What the Fossil Evidence Really Says”

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Dr. Bechly answers probing questions of the fossil record and explains how it is not going the way Darwin was expecting. Source

21May 2023 by Post

Stay Tuned, but Here Are a Few Notes on Dave Farina versus James Tour

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I was struck by how quickly Farina was dominated and deflated as soon as he had run out of script and had to speak on his own two feet. Source

19May 2023 by Post

FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution

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An email correspondent who is friendly to intelligent design (ID) recently wrote us asking how to respond to common objections to ID arguments about the Cambrian explosion. Source

18May 2023 by Post

Origin of Life: James Tour and Dave Farina Will Debate at Rice University on Friday; Watch Here

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Dr. Tour is highly skeptical that theorists have got it all figured out about how life arose on a barren early Earth through known material processes alone. Source

17May 2023 by Post

The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

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Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Source

16May 2023 by Post

Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

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Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Source