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Helicase
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design

One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain. Read More ›
gymnastics
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The Incredible Design of Muscles

To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes. Read More ›
Mesomyzon mengae
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Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
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Is It Becoming Acceptable to Speak of Biological Systems and Processes in Terms of Design?

In this example, think of the Darwinese as packing peanuts that can be removed to get to the important items inside. Read More ›
The Blind Watchmaker
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Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Read More ›
Cuttlefish
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Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish 

It was never a given that when scientists looked deeper into life, they would find such exquisite designs; but they did. Read More ›
sperm cells
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The Exquisite Design of Egg Cells

Oogenesis (the process of egg cell formation) begins during embryonic development when the primordial germ cells are specified. Read More ›
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parenting
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Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.” Read More ›
lion
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In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility 

Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. Read More ›
sperm cells
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Sex: Engineered for Success

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›

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