We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm.

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28.03.2025

Missiles and Jackhammers | Evolution News and Science Today

I welcome science reporter David Coppedge to explore some fascinating examples of intelligent design in the plant world.

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28.03.2025

Evolving Evolvability | Evolution News and Science Today

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health.

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28.03.2025

“Creepy Crawly Complexity” | Evolution News and Science Today

Talks by three different scientists showcased the astonishing abundance, diversity, and complexity of insects, spiders, and worms.

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27.03.2025

Schiavo Case: A Tipping Point | Evolution News and Science Today

The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws.

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27.03.2025

“Experts” Blew Up Credibility | Evolution News and Science Today

Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice.

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26.03.2025

Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin” | Evolution News and Science Today

Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone.

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25.03.2025

Abstract Reasoning Earlier than Thought? | Evolution News

Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania

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25.03.2025

Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns” | Evolution News

Richard Sternberg regretted, citing Plato, that “words are very poor containers for what one wants to say” about a friend like Jonathan.

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25.03.2025

Summer Seminars: A Transformative Experience | Evolution News

The Summer Seminar presentations and discussions help equip participants with the tools they need to breathe new purpose into the scientific enterprise.

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23.03.2025

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism? | Evolution News

Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life.

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22.03.2025

“One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Theories” | Evolution News

Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture.

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22.03.2025

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge | Evolution News

Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes?

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22.03.2025

Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment? | Evolution News

Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that.

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21.03.2025

In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures | Evolution News

Most people are familiar with George Washington Carver and his discoveries of multiple uses for the peanut.

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21.03.2025

“What Is a Scientist?” | Evolution News

“A critique of scientific elitism, and a guidebook for anyone who wants to pursue real science — regardless of credentials.”

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20.03.2025

Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Colleague | Evolution News

Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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20.03.2025

Princeton Scholars: Hard Truths About Covid | Evolution News

Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies.

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20.03.2025

Nested Irreducible Complexity | Evolution News

It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process.

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19.03.2025

Seminar Is a Glorious, Cost-Free Opportunity | Evolution News

The setting, once again Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies.

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18.03.2025

Dismantling the Icons of Evolution | Evolution News

I invited Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old.

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18.03.2025

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry | Evolution News

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it.

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18.03.2025

ID Is a Pillar of Academic Freedom | Evolution News

The American Founders established government with religious liberty by separating the State and the Church without separating reason from revelation.

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16.03.2025

The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege | Evolution News

Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin.

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15.03.2025

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? | Evolution News

Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes.

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15.03.2025

The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple | Evolution News

Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size.

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14.03.2025

A “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys? | Evolution News

There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process.

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14.03.2025

Life as a Habitability Requirement | Evolution News

Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability?

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“Experts” Blew Up Credibility | Evolution News and Science Today

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Abstract Reasoning Earlier than Thought? | Evolution News

Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns” | Evolution News

Summer Seminars: A Transformative Experience | Evolution News

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In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures | Evolution News

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Microbes as “Moral Agents”? | Evolution News

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