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Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum

In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
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Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism 

At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›
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Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change. Read More ›
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Have We Become Addicted to Change?

A sci-fi author wrote of spaceship pilots using slide rules to calculate their course corrections while on interstellar journeys! Read More ›
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What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?

Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life. Read More ›
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Photo: Copper alloy arrowheads from the Bronze Age, Leicestershire, England, by The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Discovery of Metals — A Double-Edged Sword

Why should the melting points of common metals be attainable in furnaces heated by burning carbon-based organic matter? Read More ›
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Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›
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How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›
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For a Maverick Scientist, Curiosity Lead to Unexpected Adventures

In 1907, Forrest Mims’s great-grandfather lost his eyesight in a train track construction accident. Read More ›
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Photo source: Courtesy of Forrest Mims.

Can a Successful Scientist Be Self-Taught?

Without a college science degree, Mims taught himself the fundamentals of engineering and atmospheric science. Read More ›

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