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Ultimate Wiring: Design Approach Explains the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Think of a spacecraft. It might have 50 miles of wiring. In contrast, the human body has an incredible 50,000 miles of wiring. Read More ›
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Misinformation About a Masterpiece: An Engineer Responds to a Colleague

"We have the anatomy department claiming the human spine is a bad design, whilst the engineering department is improving bridge design by copying it!" Read More ›
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Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›
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Science Liberated from Dogma: Story of Everything Offers a Journey for Creating Freethinkers

A 2013 book is a training manual for talking people who profess a religious faith, mostly Christian students on college campuses, out of their faith. Read More ›
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When Churches Fail: Taking on Big Questions with The Story of Everything

The churches that Devin Squeri consulted utterly failed to provide the smallest modicum of help in addressing his questions. Read More ›
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The Living Nano-Factory: Darwinists Ignore the Ultimate Information Enigma

Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Read More ›
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What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›
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The Story of the Discovery of the Beginning of All Things

When I talk about worldview, one point I try to hammer on is that “Everything starts with origins.” Read More ›
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What’s So Hard About Scientific Controversy? Addressing Bad Theories of Truth

The consensus theory says that truth is whatever we all agree about. Needless to say, that fits right into what we were saying about status signaling. Read More ›
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Questioning the Science Experts: Is It Even Permitted?

If you're trying to do ID science, it's a little bit easier to be intellectually honest, because you have to work harder to make the case for your claim. Read More ›

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