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RuvAB
Image source: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (screen shot).

RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

This machine looks like something out of a CAD/CAM project, but it’s found in bacteria. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Arne and Bent Larsen or A./B. Larsen, CC BY-SA 2.5 DK <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/dk/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Radiotrophic fungus, by CDC/Dr. Leanor Haley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing

What about reports of a radiotrophic fungus near the Chernobyl nuclear accident that can feed off radiation? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Blake Cheek via Unsplash.

Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist

Darwinists have been led by their philosophy to misjudge human anatomy. Lents, in his fervor, “ignores biomechanics research,” “ignores engineering research.” Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Would His Theory’s Cultural Impact Dismay Darwin?

Darwin experiences the future and is shocked to learn about the impact his theory has had on areas outside of science. Read More ›
Greyfriars Bobby
Photo: Greyfriars Bobby, by IrenicRhonda, via Flickr (cropped).

Can Myths About Dogs Tell Us About Their Origins?

A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archaeology. Read More ›
Long Story Short
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Energy Harnessing: Achilles Heel for the Origin of Life

This isn’t the sort of hurdle that mindless natural processes can overcome, but it is precisely the sort of problem that a designing mind could solve. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash.

A Closer Look at Hummingbird Tongue Design

Did evolutionary theory contribute anything to this study? The authors speculate briefly about “co-evolution” of flowers and their pollinators. Read More ›
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lightning
Photo credit: http://www.cgpgrey.com / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding

Imaging techniques down to the picometer scale are permitting detection of previously unknown alliances of cellular software with electrostatics and mechanics. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›

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