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Paper Promotes “Weirdest Theory Yet” for the Cambrian Explosion

First the Oxygen Theory, now the Feces Theory. But how much experience do we really have with feces creating new genetic information? Read More ›
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Photo: Olive baboon, by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book by Chaberek, Greene Probes Evolution as a “Catholic Dilemma”

I recently returned from a safari through Zimbabwe and South Africa. The high point, I’ll confess, was one wildlife encounter in particular. Read More ›
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Photo: Podarcis siculus, by Mariomassone, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution of Biological Information: Lizards and a “New” Organ

The first experiment that Christoph Adami discusses is one where scientists transported lizards from one island to another. Read More ›
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Bacterial Flagellar Motor Proton-Driven Rotary Nanomachine
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Mighty and Meek: Behe’s Great Work at Age 30

The sheer amount of research that has gone into trying to find alternative explanations to what Behe has proposed is mind-boggling. Read More ›
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Image: "Reading by the Shore," by Charles Sprague Pearce, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design’s Summer Reading Sale — 40 Percent Discount While It Lasts!

You’re heading to that beach vacation. Or maybe like us in Washington State, you’re sneezing and coughing from the sunbaked wildfire smoke. Read More ›
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Photo credit; Aunapuu, M.; Kibur, P.; Järveots, T.; Arend, A., CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Galloping Flagella and Cilia Railroads — Celebrating Darwin’s Black Box

These organelles, protruding from the cell into the environment, could not be built by a Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›
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Photo: Drosera, by Shiv's fotografia, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin’s Black Box at 30: The Evidence Wins!

Macrobiological features have been cited as irreducibly complex, including animal joints and the trap mechanisms of carnivorous plants, even the cell itself. Read More ›
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Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source
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Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Read More ›
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Mighty Darwin Has Struck Out: Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box

Most iconically of all, Behe gave us there the irreducibly complex bacterial flagellum. Right away, the flagellum hit the fan. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin Devolves (Again): Circular Thinking and the Debilitating Assumptions

"There is a reason why evolutionists focus on the human body as a prime example of bad design." Read More ›

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