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DNA
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The Origin of Life and the Information Enigma

In 1953, when Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of the DNA molecule, they made a startling discovery. Read More ›
brain
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Yes, the Human Brain Is the Most Complex Thing in the Universe

Our brains have actually shrunk by 10 percent over the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements. Read More ›
Seminar Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer teaching at the Summer Seminars, via Discovery Institute.

Looking for a Future in Intelligent Design Research? Come to the Summer Seminars!

On what seems like almost a daily basis, some new ID-friendly scientist emails us out of the blue to make contact with kindred spirits. Read More ›
topoisomerase
Image: Topoisomerase II, by Discovery Institute.

New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›
puppy
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Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›
Darwin's shoes
Photo: Detail of Darwin statue, Natural History Museum, London, by Rept0n1x (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda

Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Toward a New Natural Theology

Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths. Read More ›
monkey-in-mirror
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Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
throne
Photo: Charles Darwin, enthroned, by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›
wedding
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What Are Science and Faith — And Are They Compatible?

Atheists might say that if Christian scientists understood the full implications of science, they would see that their Christian faith is unsustainable. Read More ›

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