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Photo: A gecko displays its superbly designed toes, by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?

A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Photo: A fairyfly (Gonatocerus triguttatus), by Reyes Garcia III [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Gecko, Fairyfly, Manta Ray: Animals Push the Limits of the Possible

What are we to think of humble animals that make the semi-miraculous look routine? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ashlyak [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay

The birth of gene-edited children — which I discussed here just yesterday — has been confirmed. Read More ›
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Word Games with Evolutionists

Coming from the National Center for Science Education or the New York Times, this is typical. Read More ›
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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 ›
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More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›
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Photo: Tree of Life, at Walt Disney World Resort, by KirkMoorePhoto [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›
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Photo: Snow flakes as seen through a scanning electron microscope, via Wikimedia Commons.

DNA as Clue: How Intelligence Detects and Creates Information

What does it mean that there’s information in DNA, and how does this distinguish it from most other physical objects? Read More ›
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Photo: "Waltz of the Polypeptides" (sculpture), Cold Spring Harbor, by Vik Nanda, via Flickr.

Protein Folds Violate Evolutionary Expectations

Protein folds show more flexibility than previously thought, but the flexibility appears designed. If it’s hard to get one fold to work, how about two in the same protein? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jayel Aheram, via Flickr.

Nathan Lents: Science with the Parking Brake On 

In his new book, Lents has taken intelligent design theory to task. He is right to do so. How? Read More ›

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