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21Feb 2025 by Post

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Source

10Jan 2025 by Post

The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

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In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Source

30Oct 2024 by Post

The Fate of Evolution Without Natural Selection

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It does not seem reasonable to accept the veridical status of evolution on the basis of what an increasing number of scientists perceive as a “dodgy dossier.” Source

04Oct 2024 by Post

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

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Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Source

07Mar 2024 by Post

Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

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I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Source

17Nov 2023 by Post

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

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Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Source

30Nov 2022 by Post

Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion

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We have seen the absurdly low quality of this individual’s video. But there is much more. I have added timecodes in square brackets for easier reference. Source

08Dec 2021 by Post

The Return to the God Paradigm

carbohydrate, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Cristian Bandea, Darwinians, Eric Metaxas, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, God of the Details, Is Atheism Dead?, Lawrence Krauss, lottery, mutations, nature, Origin of Species, Phillip Johnson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Steve Taylor, The Blind Watchmaker, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm. Source

08Nov 2021 by Post

Darwin’s Many Doubts

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Did the admirably candid Charles Darwin himself really believe all that he wrote about evolution? Source

02Jun 2021 by Post

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

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The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Source

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