Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2018

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Photo: Breast cancer cell, via National Cancer Institute.

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›
Nancy Pearcey
Photo: Nancy Pearcey speaking at the Heritage Foundation (screen shot), via YouTube.

Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

Who — or what — determines what we are? Why does it matter? And how should we act in light of the answers to those questions? Read More ›
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Photo: A student gains “hands-on” experience with DNA with an inexpensive BioBits kit, by Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction

An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding. Read More ›
Hoilungia-hongkongensis
Photo: Hoilungia hongkongensis, by Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, via EurekAlert!

Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover? 

Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture. Read More ›
orangutan
Photo: An orangutan, by entrecon, via Pixabay.

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›
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New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Dabar Postscript

A participant did not like that I called his origins model “idiosyncratic,” or that I characterized the reaction to it as “cautious.” Oh well. Read More ›
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Photo: Not really Charles Darwin (r.) but looks a bit like him if you unfocus your eyes, by Mr. Gray, via Flickr.

Failed Predictions Weekend: Hunter on Darwinian Evolution, the DNA Code, and More

Dr. Cornelius Hunter has more to say about 22 basic predictions of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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