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05Oct 2024 by Post

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

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Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Source

01Aug 2024 by Post

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

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Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Source

28Mar 2024 by Post

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

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Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Source

05Sep 2023 by Post

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source

07Jul 2023 by Post

Ovid in His Exile

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Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Source

17Mar 2022 by Post

David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

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We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Source

18Dec 2020 by Post

The Myth of Behe “Refuted”

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Once again, Darwinists seek to avoid an argument by using clever talk, giving the false impression of a scientist, Behe, who brushes away challenges. Source

17Oct 2020 by Post

ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We’re Living in Computer Simulation

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Of course, an 80 percent chance that we live in an intelligently design world compares favorably with only a 50 percent chance. Source

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