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Dr. Howard Glicksman: Why Evolution Fails to Explain Life’s Design

In a universe of non-living space and matter, life is incredibly rare. To stay alive, all organisms have to overcome a myriad of engineering challenges. Read More ›
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Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive

Can purely material causes account for the coherent, interdependent, tightly coordinated, and precision-tuned systems that life requires? Read More ›
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Darwin’s Orphan Foe: A Gene Army Comes for Darwinism

Evolutionary theory led evolutionists to expect these genes to be rare. As it turns out, they aren’t. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›
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At Conference in Venice, Scientists Discuss Challenges to Darwin, Past and Future 

One of the highlights was a poignant talk by Italian biologist Umberto Fasol, who recounted how a seminal book challenging Darwinism had changed his life Read More ›
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Materialism, Morality, and the Erosion of Objective Rights

How is the job of a scientist similar to the job of an attorney? And how do you define evidence? Read More ›
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Biological Foresight Wins Nobel Prize

Who is more worthy of honor: the designer of a highly sophisticated functional system, or investigators who figured out how it works? Read More ›
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An Attorney Weighs the Evidence for ID

Attorneys are skilled in evaluating evidence and making ideas easier to understand, two skills that come in handy when assessing scientific theories as well. Read More ›
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Photo: Bogong moth, by Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Animal Algorithms: Moth Celestial Navigation

The origin, genetic inheritance, and how such algorithms are programmed in the brain remains a mystery. Read More ›
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French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator. Read More ›

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