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Cancel Culture Comes to Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 10, 2020}

This sort of behavior is not new. In 2004, the University of Helsinki (Finland) cancelled some scheduled talks by Discovery Institute fellows Paul Nelson and Richard Sternberg.

Meeting Phil Johnson at Berkeley

_{Jonathan Wells
November 5, 2019}

As a biology graduate student, I had seen first-hand some of the alleged evidence for the “fact” of common descent.

Is Gender in Penguins a Human Construct?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 13, 2019}

Penguins have no external genitalia. Even as adults, the males and females can be difficult to tell apart.

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.

Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

_{Jonathan Wells
February 15, 2019}

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”

Science and Faith — A Report from Colombia

_{Jonathan Wells
January 14, 2019}

Rick Sternberg and I agreed that this was one of the best conferences we had ever attended.

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.

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
August 20, 2018}

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”?

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

_{Jonathan Wells
July 17, 2018}

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.”

Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

_{Jonathan Wells
July 9, 2018}

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA.

The Perfect Human Body?

_{Jonathan Wells
June 26, 2018}

For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution.

A Child’s Intuition of Purpose in Nature Is No Accident

_{Jonathan Wells
June 22, 2018}

In 1929, child psychologist Jean Piaget called children “artificialists” who tend to regard everything as “the product of human creation.”

Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machines

_{Jonathan Wells
June 13, 2018}

René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”

Life Exponential: Life Exhibits Intelligent Design at Many Levels

_{Jonathan Wells
June 1, 2018}

Complexity (such as we see in a pile of autumn leaves) can arise spontaneously from unguided natural processes, but complex specified information cannot.

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 science.

There You Go Again, Nathan Lents

_{Jonathan Wells
May 11, 2018}

“The human eye is a well-tread [sic] example of how evolution can produce a clunky design,” writes Professor Lents.

Eyes in a Twinkling?

_{Jonathan Wells
May 1, 2018}

In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps.

Marching for Evidence?

_{Jonathan Wells
April 15, 2018}

Imagine yourself as a graduate student doing research in one of the natural sciences.

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
April 13, 2018}

Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!”

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

_{Jonathan Wells
March 16, 2018}

Evolutionary theory fails to explain what almost all biology students are told it explains: the origin and diversity of life.