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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Read More ›
2021
Image credit: Tim Reckmann, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Nathan Rupert, via Flickr (cropped).

Engineering-Based Models Better Explain the Pattern of Nature than Does Common Ancestry

Eyes with lenses are believed to have evolved independently multiple times, but all evolutionary scenarios face insurmountable barriers. Read More ›
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Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.

Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates his Faith-Based Approach to Science  

Members of the evolutionary community believe that philosophical commitments supersede evidence and reason. Read More ›
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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias

Future scientists are taught to interpret the world through a rigid conceptual grid. Read More ›
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Image credit: Sam Kriegman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication

Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm. Read More ›
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Photo: Aurora borealis, by NASA/ Bill Dunford.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning

If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning. Read More ›
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Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality

Here I will address another desperate attempt to avoid a cosmic beginning, this one by astrophysicist Paul Sutter. Read More ›
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Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name)

The critics, including Ethan Siegel, appear to see Meyer much like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Read More ›
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Image: Three-spine stickleback, by Alexander Francis Lydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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