Category: Intelligent Design

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Author
John G. West

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, biochemists, C. W. Howell, Discovery Institute, dissertation, documentation, Duke University, fabrication, investigation, Michael Behe, New York University Press, notation, Office of Counsel, public access, publishers, reputational harm}

Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication

_{John G. West
September 8, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howell’s book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, acids, adaptation, architectural plan, autonomy, catalysts, crystallization, designer, drying, early Earth, Energy, environment, experiments, feedstock, filtration, gases, high-pressure catalytic reactors, high-temperature furnaces, information, intelligent design, life, machinery, manufacturing specifications, Miller-Urey experiment, natural materials, nature, origin of life, pathway to life, purification, reagents, reproduction, Research, self-organizational processes, synthetic chemists, unguided chemistry}

Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 8, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Read More ›

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Date
September 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Unlike Darwin, Wallace grew up among the middle class and had to work for a living. This dictated the contours of his life and research. Read More ›

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post

Date
September 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __featured3, bacteria, calcium ions, calcium signals, eukaryotic cells, evolution, higher animals, humans, Institute of Phototrophic Microbiology, intelligent design, Khaled Selim, Phys.org, prehistory}

That Was Fast: From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years

_{Science & Culture
September 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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That’s now just 1 billion years for all the apparatus to hit on the lucky combination randomly, unless we start with design principles. Read More ›

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post

Author
John G. West

Date
September 4, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured1, academic fabrication, ACLU, atheists, Brian Josephson, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christian magazines, Christianity Today, Christians, Darwinian theory, Denis Noble, Designer Science, Discovery Institute, Dover School District, Edward Larson, evolution, intelligent design, materialists, Michael Behe, misinformation, New York University Press, Oxford University, Pulitzer Prize, Ronald Numbers, Scopes trial, secular voices, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Summer for the Gods, William Jennings Bryan}

How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote

_{John G. West
September 4, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As you might have noticed, the critics of intelligent design I’m discussing here aren’t atheists or materialists. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, carbohydrates, cellular metabolism, chemistry, control feedback loops, embedded computing, Energy, enzymes, feedstock, formaldehyde, informational system, intelligent design, iron, lipids, microspheres, minimally complex cells, molybdenum, Nayan Chakraborty, organic molecules, origin of life, origin-of-life literature, peptides, philosophical commitments, phosphate, protocells, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Shashi Thutupalli, signal processing, specified complexity, spherules, storytelling, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Protocell Pretensions: The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

_{Brian Miller
September 3, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Africa, BioCosmos Kenya, Center for Science and Culture, computers, desks, donors, educational resources, faculty, Great Lakes University of Kisumu, intelligent design, Kenya, laboratory, Lencer Ndede, materials, smart screen, students}

A Hub of Intelligent Design in Africa

_{Tova Levengood
September 3, 2026

Intelligent Design, Science Education

3}

Not only does the space enable regular study, but also it hosts ID discussion forums, faculty or departmental workshops, and club training. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 2, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Artificial Cell Model, avida, calculations, Christoph Adami, complex systems, complexity, computer models, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary models, fitness, genomes, information, intelligent design, metabolites, precursor molecules, pykaryotes, simplicity, The Evolution of Biological Information, Thomas Ray, Tierra}

Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

_{Winston Ewert
September 2, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, C. W. Howell, Designer Science, discourse, Duke University, fabrication, fabulists, funeral pyre, Jason Arday, Jennifer Hammer, Joan Didion, Lehigh University, media, Michael Behe, New York University Press, publishers, race, Retraction Watch, science journals, Townhall, University of Cambridge, Vikings}

Academic Fabrication: Is the Case of Designer Science an Isolated One?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 2, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"There are tales readily believed by scholars, 'in order to live' — because the ideological campus discourse is beyond question." Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›