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Tonight at 7:30 Pacific Time, Join Us Here as We Live-Stream Douglas Axe and the Undeniable Book Party!

This evening we'll head over to Seattle's McCaw Hall to mark the publication of the important new book by Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed. The additional good news about this, already noted here, is that you can join us wherever you are via live streaming:

Dr. Axe will be speaking, introduced by luminaries in the world of ID science and scholarship. Doors open at 7 pm Pacific time, though that doesn't apply to our remote audience, and the fe...

Radical Greens Want to Criminalize Human Thriving

I have been so caught up in the continuing dissipation of medical ethics and the euthanasia juggernaut in Canada, I haven't had the time to discuss ecocide in awhile. Last year, I warned that Monsanto would be put on a mock trial for "ecocide."

What is that, you ask? Ecocide represents a radical environmentalist agenda that would criminalize the large-scale exploitation of natural resources as an international "crime against peace" deemed as heinous by the Greensters as genocide and ethnic c...

Axe and Undeniable -- What the Scientists Are Saying

Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed was published yesterday by HarperOne. What do scientists say about this remarkable new book by Biologic Institute protein chemist Douglas Axe, demonstrating the scientific validity of the "design intuition"?

The comments are coming in and they are excellent.

From biochemist Michael J. Behe, Lehigh University, author of Darwin's Black Box and The Edge of Evolution:

Roses, dogs, birds. From childhood everyone directly grasps...

Do Animals Have Language?

Atheist mathematician Jeffrey Shallit takes issue with my recent post in which I pointed out that animals are incapable of logic or language. He makes several points. I'll address animal language in this post.

Shallit:

... there is an area of science that is actively interested in testing [the claim that animals have language], although you'd never know it from reading Egnor. It is a branch of ethology, which is the science of animal behavior. Contrary to Egnor's claims, the evidence for an...

Dutch MDs Help with Suicide by Starvation

Once the culture of death sinks its venomous teeth into a society, corruption follows upon corruption. The medical sector is among the first to corrode.

Witness the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) that now advises its members to help "anyone" commit suicide by self-starvation. From the (PDF) document, "Caring for People Who Choose Not to Eat or Drink So as to Hasten the End of Life" (my emphasis):

Consciously choosing not to eat and drink to hasten the end of life is a choice each and every...

In Undeniable, Douglas Axe Liberates Readers from the Tyranny of Evolution "Experts"

It was with a familiar longing that I turned the last page of Douglas Axe's new book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed, published today. If only evolutionists would quit spinning their theory for a moment, read a serious critic, and answer him. If only! One of the most striking features of the Darwin "debate" is the signal refusal of Darwin's defenders to register scientific critiques and offer a worthy reply.

Having read Undeniable, I think the evolutiona...

Your Deluded Brain Thinks It's Conscious!

Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. From the New York Times:

Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind

The challenge now is to explain how the inner world of consciousness arises from the flesh of the brain.

Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, suggested... that consciousness is a kind of con game the brain plays with itself. The brain is a computer that evolved to simulate the outside world. Among its internal models is a simulation of itself -- a crude appro...

Just Hours Left to Pre-Order Undeniable by Doug Axe!

Doug Axe's new book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed, will be released tomorrow, July 12, but you can still pre-order now! Pre-ordering requires doing so before midnight tonight, Pacific time.

If you do, you can participate in an exclusive, private conference call with Dr. Axe and talkshow host Michael Medved. You'll also receive digital versions of three complete books from Discovery Institute Press: Debating Darwin's Doubt, The Unofficial Guide to Cosmo...

Sorry, Faster Mutation Rate Will Not Explain the Cambrian Explosion

Strange ideas are percolating at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Certain biophysicists think that hot vents and boiling pools accelerated the emergence and complexity of life. Why? The hotter the water, the more the mutations. When Earth boiled soon after its birth, there were more opportunities for mistakes in the genetic code to come up with new things. As the temperature cooled over 4 billion years to modern levels in the 70-degree range, there was a "precipitous decline...

Irreducible Complexity in Male Sexual Function

Editor's note: Physicians have a special place among the thinkers who have elaborated the argument for intelligent design. Perhaps that's because, more than evolutionary biologists, they are familiar with the challenges of maintaining a functioning complex system, the human body. With that in mind, Evolution News is delighted to offer this series, "The Designed Body." For the complete series, see here. Dr. Glicksman practices palliative medicine for a hospice organization.

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