“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Short Answer

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You don't have time to give a 30-minute answer outlining the different meanings of the word "evolution" and the evidence pro and con for each. Source
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The Federalist on Stephen Meyer’s Latest ­— “Harder and Harder to Dismiss Intelligent Design”

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The “corporate media” is an apt formulation to describe the engine of mindless conformity that increasingly dominates our lives. Source
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Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”

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This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth. Source
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Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Source
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Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Source
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