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New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

_{Jonathan Witt
February 1, 2022}

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2022}

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft.

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2021}

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2021}

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard.

New Book Spotlights High Tech Animal Navigation

_{Jonathan Witt
November 3, 2021}

Meet the animal kingdom’s most stunning navigators — the Arctic tern, homing pigeons, the monarch butterfly, and the desert ant, among others.

New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
November 1, 2021}

The book is all about the buzzing, migrating, web-spinning, and colony-building world of ingenious animals.

New Animated Video Dismantles Origin-of-Life Hype

_{Jonathan Witt
October 25, 2021}

The origin of the first life required not merely design, but an ingenious designing intelligence far beyond that of our smartest origin-of-life researchers.

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

_{Jonathan Witt
October 22, 2021}

Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa.

Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

_{Jonathan Witt
October 14, 2021}

Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it.

Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

_{Jonathan Witt
October 13, 2021}

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective.

In a New Book, Longtime Agnostic Dumps Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
August 2, 2021}

Critics of intelligent design will have a hard time maligning Neil Thomas as a “creationist in a cheap tuxedo.”

Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

_{Jonathan Witt
July 11, 2021}

The once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Dr. Behe suggested in his first book.

Information, Entropy, and the First Life

_{Jonathan Witt
July 1, 2021}

Physicist Eric Hedin talks about the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism.

How Science and Faith Relate — Three Options

_{Jonathan Witt
June 29, 2021}

"Dialogue," in practice, can quickly devolve into a monologue where religion is supposed to sit down and shut up the moment there is a point of difference.

What Darwinism Fails to Explain About Business Enterprise

_{Jonathan Witt
June 24, 2021}

Why would anyone think Darwinian theory could explain business ups and downs? Eric Holloway explains.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

_{Jonathan Witt
June 14, 2021}

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid.

Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

_{Jonathan Witt
June 7, 2021}

Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life.

God Hypothesis: Stephen Meyer Answers Your Questions

_{Jonathan Witt
May 28, 2021}

Daniel Reeves emceed, and in his introductory conversation with Meyer the two discuss a tidbit about Meyer’s time at Cambridge when he was working on his PhD.

Brian Miller: Star-Crossed RNA Strands and the Origin of Life

_{Jonathan Witt
May 4, 2021}

Dr. Miller explores more problems facing the idea that life began as strings of RNA.

Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
May 2, 2021}

The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic.