No. 10 Story of 2024: Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is Cutting Edge

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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with a podcast. Source
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To Address the Problem of Evil, Intelligent Design Is Better Situated than Darwinism

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The questions I see coming into the Center for Science and Culture from our readers, friends, and supporters are thought-provoking. Source
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Farewell to Daniel Dennett

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Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Source
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

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I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Source
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Source
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Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

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The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Source
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Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

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Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

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The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Source
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