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Packed House and Intense Q&A at Sam Noble Museum for Metamorphosis

When the building security pushes you out, keys in hand, and there are still five people standing at the microphone waiting to ask their questions, you know it’s been a good evening.

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Engineering at Its Finest: Bacterial Chemotaxis and Signal Transduction

The bacterial flagellum represents not just a problem of irreducible complexity. Rather, the problem extends far deeper than that. What we are now observing is the existence of irreducibly complex systems within irreducibly complex systems. Read More ›
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The first butterflies fluttering over a clearing with spring flowers.
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Listening to Butterflies

The metamorphosis of butterflies represents "the magic of reality," in Richard Dawkins's wonderful phrase, where actual, not made-up or fictional, biology is so astonishing that its power to move us never goes away. Read More ›

Monday’s Forecast for University of Oklahoma: High of 88° and Sunny with 100% Chance of Butterflies

Having rolled out its California premiere on Saturday, Illustra Media's fantastic new intelligent-design documentary, Metamorphosis, takes its show on the road. Read More ›

California Metamorphosis Premiere Stars Live Butterflies

A thousand people responded with long, resounding applause to Illustra’s new film, Metamorphosis, at its California premiere on Saturday. The auditorium was filled and the audience was thrilled, especially at the very end when the stars of the show made a surprise appearance. The classic Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton was the venue for the premiere. Every family who RSVP’d ahead of time got a free DVD of the film. As people arrived, Mark Edward Lewis at the piano played a suite of themes from the Illustra soundtracks he has composed (see interview). Following the credits and some thank-you’s to several in the audience who had worked on the film, Dr. Paul Nelson appeared on stage with Lad Allen to discuss Read More ›

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