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Evolutionist Claims ChatGPT “Lies About Junk DNA”

A null hypothesis, such as expecting the absence of function in non-coding DNA, reveals a presupposition that biases one’s interpretation of the evidence.  Read More ›
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
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Tutorial: Melissa Cain Travis on Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility

A host of philosophers, theologians, scientists, and mathematicians have been struck by the uncanny interconnection between three distinct domains of reality. Read More ›
Mob Quad, Merton College
Photo: Mob Quad, Merton College, one of Oxford University's oldest structures, by DWR, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity 

The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›
DNA
DNA
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Richard Sternberg on the Trail of the Immaterial Genome

Dr. Sternberg speaks on his mathematical/logical work showing the difficulty of identifying genes purely with material phenomena. Read More ›
Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism

“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution,” he said. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God.” Read More ›
mouse
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Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can

Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did. Read More ›
Monarch butterly
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The Year in Review: Intelligent Design Grows in Influence and Depth

Our researchers will continue to support and communicate what represents the earliest stages in the next great scientific revolution. Read More ›
túngara frog
Photo: A túngara frog, by Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Frogs and Fish “Count”

We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed. Read More ›
leaf hopper
Photo: A leaf hopper, by Cowli33, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›
weasel
Photo: METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, by loren chapman, via Flickr (cropped).

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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