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14Apr 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

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This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Source

12Apr 2023 by Post

God Hypothesis: New Paperback with Reply to Critics

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We're sharing some of the best interviews Meyer has given in support of the book. Here is a great exchange with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Source

11Apr 2023 by Post

Debate About the God Hypothesis: An Overview with Stephen Meyer

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Stephen Meyer's Return of the God Hypothesis is out now in paperback with a new epilogue by Dr. Meyer responding to critics. Source

10Apr 2023 by Post

There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

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Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Source

09Apr 2023 by Post

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Source

08Apr 2023 by Post

James Tour on Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

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Tour doesn’t argue researchers will never be able to design a cell from non-living matter. He does say that if it is achieved, it will be well into the future. Source

06Apr 2023 by Post

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

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In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source

04Apr 2023 by Post

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

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For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Source

02Apr 2023 by Post

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

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Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Source

31Mar 2023 by Post

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source

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