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Garbage Goodbye: In Blow to Junk RNA, “Majority” of Transcription Not “Background Noise”

A 2026 paper reports on an AI trained on genomic data, including data from a 2024 paper, enabling it to predict when transcription would be initiated. Read More ›
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Nose Knows Better than Darwinism; Design Logic Explains Why

"By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all." Read More ›
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Microscopic Bacterial Analysis - Bacteria in Greenish Liquid Illustration
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Cosmos and Life: Everything Points to a Paradigm Shift

Why would most people avoid drinking stagnant water from a puddle or a swamp? Probably not for fear of ingesting some dissolved salts or minerals. Read More ›
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Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution

Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Read More ›
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Bad Synteny Arguments Claim “No Functional Reason” for Genomic Arrangements

To skip to the punchline, Kuebler says that "species as distantly related as humans and mice share a huge array of synteny blocks." Read More ›
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Theistic Evolution Book Cites Debunked Icons

Professor Kuebler uses a classical argument for common descent, citing the universality of the genetic code. Read More ›
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Yellow-Crested Cockatoo Bird
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What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Read More ›
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Hello, Materialists, Let’s Weigh and Measure the Mind

A recent review of our book provides a chances to reflect on mind verus matter — and materialism. Read More ›
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Another “Scientific” Attack on Free Will

We don’t even know what consciousness is. If there is no free will, are we even really conscious? Read More ›
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“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Read More ›

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