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10Sep 2026 by Post

Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

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It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Source

09Sep 2026 by Post

The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

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Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Source

08Sep 2026 by Post

Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication

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On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howell’s book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote. Source

06Sep 2026 by Post

Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge

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But what if instead of keyboards, the familiar monkeys were drawing Scrabble tiles? Source

05Sep 2026 by Post

That Was Fast: From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years

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That’s now just 1 billion years for all the apparatus to hit on the lucky combination randomly, unless we start with design principles. Source

04Sep 2026 by Post

How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote

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As you might have noticed, the critics of intelligent design I’m discussing here aren’t atheists or materialists. Source

02Sep 2026 by Post

Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

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But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Source

29Aug 2026 by Post

C. W. Howell in Context: A Brief History of Histories

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One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Source

27Aug 2026 by Post