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October 2021

fruit fly
Photo: A fruit fly, by Macroscopic Solutions, via Flickr.

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›
Neptune
Photo: Neptune, photographed by Voyager 2, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Rabbi Moshe Averick: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, and shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›
photosynthesis
Photo credit: Kumiko SHIMIZU, via Unsplash.

The Molecular Machine Behind Carbon Balance

Plants are icons of sustainability. They create critical products for other living organisms while utilizing waste products. Read More ›
Opabinia regalis
Photo: Fossil of Opabinia regalis, a Cambrian animal, by Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin, by Brian Gage.

Comparing Intelligent Design and the New Atheists: Who’s Ahead?

Dr. Luskin makes the interesting observation that the New Atheists took off initially following the Dover ruling, seemingly fueled by it. Read More ›
chloroplasts
Photo: Chloroplasts, by Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature’s Energy Mining Relies on Molecular Design

Plants mine energy from a primary source (sun) and transform that energy into a secondary source (sugar). Read More ›

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