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To Crowdsource DNA, or Not to Crowdsource DNA: A Microbe’s Decision Pathway

These are the same type of understandable and logical computation circuits that humans design. What can we learn from observing this similarity? Read More ›
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New Paper: Appeals to Evolutionary Plateaus Do Not Save Evolution

In evolution, mutations that increase fitness can be thought of as moving uphill, whereas mutations that decrease fitness can be thought of as moving downhill. Read More ›
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On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Read More ›
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Read More ›
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Cellular Design: More than Information, It Is the Manifestation of an Idea

I’ll attempt to describe an additional aspect of living organisms that highlights their “wholeness” and negates the possibility of reducing life to information. Read More ›
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It’s Time for a “Disclosure Day” on Design in Nature

The culture has been buzzing about Steven Spielberg’s latest, which depicts whistleblowers releasing evidence about UFOs that the government has hidden. Read More ›
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Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›
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Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›
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Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

Today on Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. Read More ›
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The Science of Darwin and Marx Provides No Support for “Unalienable Rights”

Voltaire said that madness is to have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Read More ›

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