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1 week ago | evolutionnews.org | David Klinghoffer

Editor’s note: We are glad to present this excerpt from the new book from Discovery Institute Press, Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome, by David Klinghoffer. As I was writing this, evolutionary biologist Colin Wright took a poll on X. He posed the following question: “Is Intelligent Design a scientific hypothesis?” Wright is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an advisor for Atheists for Liberty.

2 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | Wesley Smith |Wesley Smith

The “nature rights” movement has really hit the big time. The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. From the National Geographic website:Today, the National Geographic Society, in collaboration with The Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, are proud to announce For Nature.

2 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | David Klinghoffer

Thanks to the outstanding analysis of scientist Casey Luskin, another icon of evolution has tumbled. (See here, here, here, and here.) It’s been widely touted for so long that human and chimp DNA is only “1 percent different” that it comes as a shock to reveal the truth. Buried in arcane language in the Supplemental Data of a groundbreaking study in the journal Nature, it turns out the difference is more like 14.9 percent. But consider what that means.

2 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | John Zmirak

Editor’s note: John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, is a longtime student of intelligent design. So when he learned that David Klinghoffer of Discovery Institute had published a new contribution to that discipline, he hurried to get hold of it. Here’s his interview with Klinghoffer about the new book, cross-posted from The Stream with the permission of Mr. Zmirak.

2 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | David Klinghoffer

Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor asks, “Is the Soul Real?” That’s the title of his recent presentation at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, a preview of his forthcoming book with Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind. It’s up now on the Discovery Science page on YouTube: Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy.