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Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism 

Jonathan Wells
May 16, 2018
Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical … » Go
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Disinherit the Wind

Jonathan Wells
September 4, 2017
“INTENSE AND COMPELLING… extremely well acted… superbly written… and brilliantly directed.” –Ron Irwin, Santa Monica Observer and LA Post Examiner “FASCINATING… a splendid cast.” –Neal Weaver, Stage Raw Join Center for Science and Culture (CSC) Senior … » Go
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Ten Questions to Ask About Your Biology Textbooks

Jonathan Wells
April 30, 2017
In Zombie Science, Wells asks a simple question: If the icons of evolution were just innocent textbook errors, why do so many of them still persist? Science has enriched our lives and led to countless discoveries. But now, Wells argues, it’s being corrupted. Empirical science is devolving … » Go
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Intelligent Design Education Day - Dallas

Jonathan Wells
April 28, 2017
Are you looking for creative ways to teach your students about scientific challenges to Darwinism? As a parent or educator, are you curious about exploring intelligent design, but don’t know where to start? Do you already incorporate intelligent design into your curriculum, but would … » Go
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Zombie Science

Jonathan Wells
April 27, 2017
More than 15 years ago, Dr. Wells took the science world by storm with Icons of Evolution, a book showing how biology textbooks routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidence–icons of evolution like Ernst Haeckel’s faked embryo drawings and peppered moths glued to tree trunks. Critics of … » Go
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Zombie Science National Book Party

Jonathan Wells
April 18, 2017
Join us for the national launch of biologist Jonathan Wells’ new book Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution at the renowned Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle on April 18. Listen to Dr. Wells speak about his new book, engage in Q and A, and be one of the first people to get a personally signed … » Go
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Zombie Science Book Release at Woodland Zoo

Jonathan Wells
April 17, 2017
In his latest book Zombie Science, biologist Jonathan Wells asks a simple question: If the icons of evolution were just innocent textbook errors, why do so many of them still persist? Wells gave a presentation about Zombie Science at the book’s national launch party recently in Seattle. (see … » Go
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Zombie Science

Jonathan Wells
March 17, 2017
About the Book In 2000, biologist Jonathan Wells took the science world by storm with Icons of Evolution, a book showing how biology textbooks routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidence — icons of evolution like Ernst Haeckel’s faked embryo drawings and peppered moths glued to tree … » Go
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Design Beyond DNA

Jonathan Wells
January 21, 2017
Tune in Saturday, January 21, to an online webinar featuring CSC Senior Fellow Dr. Jonathan Wells. In this session, molecular biologist Dr. Wells will discuss the layers of information beyond the level of DNA and how it evidences design. Participants will have the opportunity to engage Dr. Wells … » Go
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Jonathan Wells's Centriole Hypothesis

Jonathan Wells
March 14, 2014
A microtubule-dependent polar ejection force that pushes chromosomes away from spindle poles during prometaphase is observed in animal cells but not in the cells of higher plants. Elongating microtubules and kinesin-like motor molecules have been proposed as possible causes, but neither accounts … » Go
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Evolution News

Meeting Phil Johnson at Berkeley

Jonathan Wells
November 5, 2019
Editor’s note: Phillip E. Johnson, Berkeley law professor and author of Darwin on Trial and other books, died on November 2. Evolution News is currently sharing remembrances from Fellows of Discovery Institute. Dr. Wells is the author most recently of Zombie Science: More Icons of … » Go
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Is Gender in Penguins a Human Construct?

Jonathan Wells
September 13, 2019
“Gay penguins at London aquarium are raising ‘genderless’ chick.” So announced NBC News on September 10, 2019. The penguins are of the Gentoo species. According to the Irish Post, “Staff have taken the decision not to describe the Gentoo penguin as either male or female because … » Go
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An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight

Jonathan Wells
May 15, 2019
Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better. A person who calls himself or herself “Puck Mendelssohn” (hereafter PM) on Amazon, and “Darwin’s Bullfinch” in his or her profile, has long ridiculed … » Go
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Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

Jonathan Wells
February 15, 2019
Seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” In 1998, Bruce Alberts (who was then president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences) wrote that “the entire cell can be viewed as a … » Go
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Science and Faith — A Report from Colombia

Jonathan Wells
January 14, 2019
Are science and faith incompatible or complementary? From November 7 to 9, 2018, Richard Sternberg and I from Discovery Institute joined three other speakers in Bogotá, Colombia, to address this question before a large audience at the First International Congress of Science and Faith. I … » Go
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Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

Jonathan Wells
January 4, 2019
If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah. The GSLC created evolution learning materials for classrooms nationwide with National Science … » Go
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Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

Jonathan Wells
August 20, 2018
Critics of intelligent design (ID) sometimes argue that if the human body were designed, it would be perfect. Among other things, we would not suffer from diseases such as cancer. Defenders of ID point out that this criticism is misplaced. Design does not imply perfection. Many things we … » Go
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From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Jonathan Wells
July 17, 2018
Charles Darwin wrote in the first edition of The Origin of Species that North American black bears had been seen  swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if … » Go
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Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

Jonathan Wells
July 9, 2018
In 2016, veteran journalist Tom Bethell published Darwin’s House of Cards: A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates. Bethell’s odyssey spanned several decades, and the book includes his own interviews with some major figures on both sides of it. As Bethell acknowledges in his … » Go
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The Perfect Human Body?

Jonathan Wells
June 26, 2018
We all know that the human body can suffer from flaws. For most people, that doesn’t mean our bodies are accidental by-products of unguided evolution. Instead, they are designed — despite the fact that they sometimes start out flawed or become flawed as they grow older. For English … » Go
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