In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition 

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The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence. Source
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Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

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At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Source
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The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

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The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Source
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Academic Article Correcting Misconceptions about Evolution Promotes Misconceptions about ID

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It’s good to be back at Discovery Institute. Even after my fives years away, I see that some things remain unchanged. Source
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Darwinian Biologist Notices that Evolution Is Irrelevant to Medical Research

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Editor’s note: As biologist Jonathan Wells observes, “[T]he measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory.” Yet a persistent claim from evolutionists is that medical research would be crippled without a Darwinian framework. Evolution News presents a series of our previously published work addressing the myth of “Darwinian medicine.” Darwinist P.Z. Myers is shocked that medical researchers aren’t invoking “evolution” regularly in their research papers: It’s not just creationists! It’s also MDs who avoid the “E” word. A survey of the literature found an interesting shift in usage: “The results of our survey showed a huge disparity in word use between the evolutionary biology and biomedical research literature. In research reports in journals with primarily evolutionary or genetic content, the word “evolution” was used 65.8% of…
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