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Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Francis Collins Renews Attack on Michael Behe and Intelligent Design

It isn’t intelligent design that “has fallen victim to advances in science.” It’s Darwin’s outdated theory. Read More ›
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From Tom Gilson, Rhetorical Advice for Opponents of Intelligent Design

Getting ID theory right instead of criticizing a made-up straw man would be a good start. Read More ›
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All photos by Günter Bechly.

Postcard from Venice: First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design

Recently I had the great privilege and honor to attend a remarkable event in the beautiful and historic city of Venice, Italy. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›
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ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Read More ›
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Is Daphnia Evolving at “Lightning Speed”?

If this is a prime example of the transformative power of evolution, the evidence is not at all impressive. Read More ›
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New Paper Challenges Evolutionary Account of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

This is a subject of long-standing interest to me, and I have published several articles here. Read More ›
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Photo: Monarch butterfly, by Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How to Defend Intelligent Design Like a Boss

How much do you know about intelligent design? How would you define the term? And are you prepared to defend it? Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›

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