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#7 of Our Top Stories of 2016: An Engineered "Minimal" Microbe Is Evidence of Intelligent Design

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#8 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Merry Christmas! These Bacteria Are No Evolutionary Nightmare

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#9 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Feathers on a Bird or Dinosaur Tail?

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An Ebola Vaccine -- Thank Animal Testing

Ebola is a terrible disease that afflicts the poorest areas of our planet. Now, scientists have apparently created a vaccine that is 100 percent effective against one form of Ebola. From the New York Times story:

In a scientific triumph that will change the way the world fights a terrifying killer, an experimental Ebola vaccine tested on humans in the waning days of the West African epidemic has been shown to provide 100 percent protection against the lethal disease.

Think of the human suffe...

If Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos Is Questioned on Evolution, Here's What She Should Say

We should expect confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's Cabinet appointments to include scaremongering about science education. This week's fake news about a "petition" to VP-elect Mike Pence, demanding a moratorium on instruction about evolution, gives a hint of what may be to come. Atheist activists jumped on the petition as evidence of what the semi-mythic "Christian Right" has in store for the next four years. The petition's creator, though, characterized it as "tongue-in-cheek."

While...

#10 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Tyson Says Chances of Intelligently Designed Universe "May Be Very High"

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Evolutionists Defend Scaremongering on Fake News "Petition"

In recent days, a series of posts by Darwin's atheists (Jerry Coyne, P.Z. Myers, Dan Arel) brandished a "petition" to ban teaching evolution in the U.S. The petition, which read like a parody to me, was addressed to VP-elect Pence. They presented this as evidence of what we can anticipate from the "Christian Right" under a Trump-Pence Administration.

"And so it begins," intoned Emeritus Professor Coyne of the University of Chicago ominously. "This is the kind of activism we can expect for t...

Sea Turtles from Pre-Turtles? No Evidence of It

We recently shared news about humpback whales. Here are some new findings about another group of stars of Illustra's film Living Waters: sea turtles. There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Consider first, appropriately, the enigma of origins.

Fossils

Do we see progression in the fossil record of sea turtles? No; according to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the oldest ancestor of modern sea turtles was -- a sea...

Let's Tell the Truth about Science Funding

A false and sentimental glow surrounds science in the minds of many outside the science world. A reverent belief in the purity of scientists, so tender and mild (except for those intelligent-design scoundrels), is a badge of membership for the enlightened. The cult of science all but denies that professionals in the field are human beings, subject to the familiar corruptions that go with money, power, and prestige.

But then occasionally a scientist or other insider will come along and dash a...

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