Eugenie Scott Lecture Resurrects, Spreads Misinformation on Intelligent Design

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There often seems to be a subtext to her remarks, as if she were telling her audience: “Go forth and persecute.” Source
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Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

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Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Source
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