Irreducible Complexity with Four Glasses and Three Knives
A post at Uncommon Descent offers an innovative way of illustrating the concept of irreducible complexity -- one that is likely to be more resistant to Darwinist misrepresentation than ...
Massimo Pigliucci: Theodosius Dobzhansky, in His Famous Comment about Evolution, Was "Patently Wrong"
Writing on his "Rationally Speaking" blog, internationally acclaimed evolutionary biologist turned philosopher Massimo Pigliucci has weighed in on a recent paper published by Addy Pross ...
The Argument From Cosmic Fine Tuning
The concept of cosmic fine tuning relates to a unique property of our universe whereby the physical constants and laws are observed to be balanced on a ‘razor’s edge’ for permitting the ...
This Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, It's the Unreasonable Rally
This Saturday, March 24, on the National Mall in Washington D.C., atheists and secularists from all over the world will gather for a day of entertainment from guest speakers, comedians and ...
British Geneticist Robert Saunders Weighs in on Signature in the Cell
Readers may recall my exchange with British geneticist Robert Saunders (here and here) following Stephen Meyer's lecture at the Lord McKay dinner in London (which you can now watch here). At the ...
The Intolerance of those Fighting for "Tolerance"
This is an article on my I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist presentation that a homosexual group protested last night at Ohio University. Notice one student said that I shouldn't be ...
Who is the Angel of the Lord?
Throughout the Old Testament, we routinely encounter the mysterious character who goes by the title "The angel of the Lord." By looking at the numerous appearances of this individual, we can ...
The GULO Pseudogene and Its Implications for Common Descent
L-gulonolactone oxidase (GULO), the final enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), is a subject that comes up often in discussions of common ancestry. The functioning ...
Did They Really Exist? A Biblical and Scientific Defence of Adam and Eve
The historicity of Adam and Eve is a question which strikes at the heart of the Christian faith. If the primordial pair did not exist, then the historical and Biblical doctrine of the fall ...
Mr. Bonhoeffer Goes to Washington
My friend and best-selling "Bonhoeffer" biographer Eric Metaxas brilliantly wove wit and humor through a speech against dead religion at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. Calling on ...
Is Banning Same Sex Marriage Discrimination?
[Note: This is an exchange which took place between myself and an anonymous correspondant regarding a recent article I published on Blogos.org (and also posted here). The correspondant's ...
Joining the Conversation: Perspectives on the Discussion with James Shapiro
I have followed with interest the discussion ("Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?") initiated by Bill Dembski and now involving James Shapiro, Ann Gauger and Douglas Axe. The nub of the ...
British Free Schools that Teach Intelligent Design as Science Will Lose Funding
The British Guardian newspaper reports on recent developments in UK governmental policy on teaching evolution in free schools (which, though state funded, are normally not required to follow ...
On the Origin of Mitochondria: Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiotic Story
With regret, ENV recently noted the passing of biologist Lynn Margulis. Margulis, a scientist whom I admired greatly, was never a stranger to controversy, going so far as to call neo-Darwinism ...
Turek & Cornuke to Lead Footsteps of Paul Cruise, July 2012
Frank Turek and Bob Cornuke (the REAL Indiana Jones) will be leading a "Footsteps of Paul" cruise in July 2012! Our ship will be Oceania's beautiful "Regatta." We'll present evidence and ...
The Universe Had a Beginning
Cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin wrote a book in 2006 (Many Worlds in One) in which he refers to a theorem he developed with Alan Guth and Arvind Borde. Although not a believer in God but the ...
The Year in Review: Intelligent Design in the UK
An often-heard criticism of intelligent design claims that it is exclusively an American phenomenon, since presumably the rest of the world is too smart to fall for the stuff. Of course this ...
John Lennox vs. Richard Dawkins
This is an excellent conversational debate between two Oxford professors, Dr. John Lennox and Dr. Richard Dawkins. Hope you enjoy it!
Larry Moran Defends "Junk DNA"
Earlier, I responded to remarks made by PZ Myers at the recent Skepticon 4 conference. His subject: "Junk DNA."
On his Sandwalk blog, University of Toronto biochemist Larry Moran has posted a ...
Animation Reveals Engineering Elegance of RNA Interference
Nature Reviews Genetics features an excellent high quality computer visualization (including an associated slideshow) of the elegant mechanism of RNA interference. RNA interference is a ...
