You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

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Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence.  Source
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Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave

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The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

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The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

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Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Source
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Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

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On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Source
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Norm Macdonald’s God Hypothesis 

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Norm casually took on the entire scientific community for “refusing to explore” what he considered the “fundamental question” of God’s existence. Source
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