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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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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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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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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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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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Evolution of Biological Information: HIV Evolution

What Christoph Adami’s results actually show is that when HIV is subjected to the protease inhibitors, the sequence variability increases. Read More ›
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Multi-Objective Optimization: Empty Criticism of Birth Biomechanics

An engineer would say that the female pelvis is the perfect compromise, the perfect size. Read More ›

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