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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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Christopher Nolan’s Disenchanted Odyssey

In Nolan's supposal, the mad scientist takes on the mystique of a wizard. Perhaps this is fitting, given that he sees science and wizardry as the same thing. Read More ›
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All the Ways to See The Story of Everything

The options have grown to the point that it’s hard to imagine there’s anyone with Internet access who can’t find it. 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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A Level Above: The Superiority of the Design Approach

"According to evolution, biology should be a level below human technology because evolution is constrained." 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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What Academics Actually Think: Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design

"One of the most encouraging things I’ve found in academia is how many people secretly support intelligent design." Read More ›

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