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West Virginia Passes Bill Protecting Teacher Rights to Answer Student Questions on “Scientific Theories”

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2024}

West Virginia joins Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana, and Mississippi to become the sixth state to adopt some form of an academic freedom policy.

PNAS Paper: “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2024}

The intelligent design community is well aware of the problem. One section in the paper that categorizes types of persecution sounds alarmingly familiar.

Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2024}

In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.”

Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2024}

Many in the intelligent design camp have considered the possibility that the evolutionary process was designed.

From Astrophysicist Paul Sutter — Multiverse Madness!

_{Casey Luskin
February 1, 2024}

I’ve argued that “multiverse thinking” destroys scientific logic. My argument involves a hypothetical “cancer cluster” in a town with a chemical plant.

Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”

_{Casey Luskin
January 31, 2024}

It’s good to find another scientist — with no connections to intelligent design — who sees the issue so clearly.

Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?

_{Casey Luskin
January 12, 2024}

Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case.

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Casey Luskin
January 11, 2024}

Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable.

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

_{Casey Luskin
December 31, 2023}

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design?

No. 5 Story of 2023: Peer-Reviewed Paper Finds “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

_{Casey Luskin
December 28, 2023}

They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.”

Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2023: Another “Vestigial” Organ Has “Absolutely Critical” Functions

_{Casey Luskin
December 25, 2023}

Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations.

Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
December 22, 2023}

Rope Kojonen wants to join “design and evolution,” but only by setting aside some of the main features of the flagellum.

It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2023}

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge.

Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
December 8, 2023}

I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum.

Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023}

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.

Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

_{Brian Miller and Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023}

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis.

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

_{Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023}

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics.

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023}

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA.

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

_{Casey Luskin
November 22, 2023}

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.”

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

_{Casey Luskin
November 17, 2023}

Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape.