Skeptical Inquirer – Uncommon Descent

At Skeptical Inquirer: Thinking outside the box is called the “Nobel Disease”

Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor doesn’t agree. In reality, he says, unorthodoxy helped the unorthodox scientists win the Prize.

Genetics Intelligent Design

When did the folk at Skeptical Inquirer become creationists?

Their story, a reader points out, ” shockingly, includes this quote: “And if you could get in a time machine and travel back a few thousand years, you could find someone who was a common ancestor of all living people on Earth.””

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