Learn about some of the new discoveries about RNA.

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July 1, 2020
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In New Research, RNA Takes Center Stage

Learn about some of the new discoveries about RNA (ribonucleic acid). RNA differs from DNA by one little change — the sugar ribose (with an OH group at the carbon-2) instead of deoxyribose (with just H there). This makes a big difference in the structural and functional traits of RNA.

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Fact Checking Our Critics

After the release of the Long Story Short video on whale evolution a few Darwinists tried to attack it. They say that we got some things wrong, but let’s look more closely and see if that’s the case.

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Evolutionary Theorizing Depends on Magic Words

Keep an eye out for the magic words in Darwin literature. Richard Dawkins said, “The living results of natural selection … impress us with the illusion of design and planning.” That’s backwards. Those who know how to interpret illusions say, “The magic words of Darwinians about how actually designed organisms came to be impress us with the illusion of scientific explanation.” Good show. Bad science.

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In the NGSS, a Dogmatic Standard on Evolution

Inaccurate teaching about evolution is widespread, as Jonathan Wells’s review of textbooks shows. The 2013 Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS, which most states have adopted verbatim or used to inform their science standards) are one-sided on the issue as well.

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Margaret Sanger Statues Honor a Racist and Eugenicist; but as with Darwin, Let Her Stay

But what about another key and linked figure in history? Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger advocated racist eugenic measures and did not shy from addressing a KKK rally. Yet she’s honored by a bust in the National Portrait Gallery’s civil rights exhibit, of all places.

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Video  Videos

Darwin's Heretic: Did the Co-Founder of Evolution Embrace Intelligent Design?
With Michael Flannery
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What is the Argument from Reason?
C.S. Lewis's Argument from Reason
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What Has Been the Response to Your Research?
Conversations with Douglas Axe

IDTF  ID the Future
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Michael Behe on E. Coli and a Citrate Death Spiral
July 1, 2020
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Robert Waltzer on Evolutionary Theory’s Room for Humility
June 29, 2020
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Paul Nelson on Listening to Nature for Her Answers
June 26, 2020
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