When Natural and Super-Natural Explanations Work Hand in Hand

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Methodological naturalism is the idea that scientists may only invoke unintelligent causes for nature’s history. Source
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Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

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The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible. Source
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

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All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Source
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The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Source
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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

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RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source
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