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06Jul 2021 by Post

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

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The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Source

03May 2021 by Post

When Darwinian Evolution Became Obsolete

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled to a poorly attended and generally inattentive audience at a Linnean Society meeting. Source

11Mar 2021 by Post

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

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The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Source

08Mar 2021 by Post

“Canceled” Physicist Eric Hedin Explores the Boundaries of Science

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Robert Crowther and author Eric Hedin begin by revisiting the atheist attack on Hedin and his Ball State University course, "The Boundaries of Science." Source

01Mar 2021 by Post

Today, “Canceled” Scientist Eric Hedin Gets His Voice Back

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Cancel culture had no name in 2013. It has since become one of the major worries in contemporary life. Source

29Oct 2020 by Post

Inside the Evolution Silo — Darwinism as a Cult

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A major news story can break outside of the silo but, because it goes against the narrative, those in the silo will never hear about it. Source

22Oct 2020 by Post

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

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Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Source

05Aug 2020 by Post

Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

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The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Source

26May 2020 by Post

Lewontin’s Confession and Mamet’s Principle

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Jerry Coyne and his Darwinist/materialist/atheist brethren make public assertions that are nonsense on their face: they claim to be mindless meat machines, they deny the indisputable evidence for intelligent design in biology and for teleology in all of nature, they deny the obvious evidence for the supernatural in cosmological singularities such as black holes and the singularity at the origin of the Big Bang, and they deny the manifest corruption of modern science by materialism and arrogance and egotism. Materialists tout determinism and deny free will, despite the fact that determinism in physics has been quite decisively refuted and the fact that free will is well supported by neuroscience and that denial of free will negates the ability to make a truth claim of any sort (if a materialist’s opinion…

22Feb 2020 by Post

Evolutionist Thinks He Is Clickbait

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I adore Jerry Coyne, the atheist evolutionist and University of Chicago emeritus biology professor. At Why Evolution Is True, he goes after Granville Sewell for a post here, “Jerry Coyne Asks a Good Question.” In his theologian mode, Coyne demands to know why God doesn’t do “ONE BIG MIRACLE, of the type I describe in Faith Versus Fact (p. 119) — a miracle that was taped and documented worldwide.” To be honest I didn’t fully read Coyne’s latest, but I noticed his claim, which he’s made repeatedly in the past, that intelligent design proponents, especially at Evolution News, write about him because he is clickbait. What’s that? Clickbait is defined as “a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article…

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