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Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Read More ›
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Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›
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Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. Read More ›
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Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers: More on Sean Carroll

Describing luxury mechanical watches as “marvels of engineering and design” is not a religiously motivated claim. Read More ›
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Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning

With the multiverse hypothesis, a key supposition is that the physical parameters within alternative universes somehow vary over an undefined range. Read More ›
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Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›
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A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›
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Gould Said It Was All Contingency and Chance — Well, Maybe Not

Appeals to contingency (i.e., in-principle unrepeatable singularities) disable theory testing. If anything can happen…don’t bother to test, because you can’t. Read More ›
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Precision Design Logic Explains Childbirth Better than Darwinism Does

It is only in the last few decades that science has been able to unravel what is going on at the molecular level within the uterus during labor and delivery. Read More ›

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