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Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Atomic Miracles: On Denton’s Latest

Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson once declared that “man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.” Read More ›
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Photo: Violin fine tuners, Kyle McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Messy Numbers that Signify Cosmic Design

If you’ve ever tuned a violin, you’ll know that the arrangement of the fine tuners on the tailpiece, once you’re done, looks arbitrary. Read More ›
Orion Nebula
Photo: Orion Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI.

How Materialists Rely on Intelligent Design

They will mock, attack, and ignore intelligent design theory. But evolutionists love using it in their own ways. Read More ›
Tour in Science Uprising
origin of life
Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

See It Now: James Tour and Brian Miller on Explaining the Origin of Life

They cover abiogenesis and “Natural Selection of the Gaps,” systems biology, design triangulation, whether life could arise anywhere without design, and more. Read More ›
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Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Read More ›
data
Photo credit: Markus Spiske via Unsplash.

Preview: James Tour, Brian Miller on the Origin of “Data Risk Management” in DNA

If computer scientists build systems like that, and life at the DNA level also incorporates them, for the very same reasons, that’s rather suggestive. Read More ›
Alex Filippenko
Photo: Alex Filippenko (screenshot).

“Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”?

I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Read More ›
Darwin
Origin of Species
Photo: Mural portrait of Charles Darwin, Sidney Street, Sheffield cc-by-sa/2.0 © Neil Theasby via Geograph.

In the Evolution Debate, How Truth Can Prevail

Paul Kecskemeti’s analysis perfectly describes the challenge faced by anyone who wishes to publicly tell the truth about the evidence for design. Read More ›
Hubble
Photo: "Hubble Views a Galactic Waterfall, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla).

John Lennox: Scientific Evidence for a Design Behind the Universe

"I greatly respect other people who, sometimes at great risk, have decided that they are going to say these kinds of things in public." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Michal Jarmoluk via Pixabay.

Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design?

A reader must ask if an RNA molecule could possibly govern chemical reactions, suppress free-riders, support co-operators, and act in its own self-interest. Read More ›

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