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Image: Closer look at the spliceosome, by Alessandra Magistrato, via Eurekalert!

Inside the Machine Room of the Nucleus

The nucleus is a beehive of activity, where information is not just stored but processed, protected, transcribed, and duplicated by highly complex machines. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›
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Photo: A manta ray, by kevskoot, via Piaxabay.

Undeniable Intuitions and Unbelievable Coincidences

Any appeal to accidental processes to accomplish an unbelievable coincidence is really just an appeal to unbelievable coincidence. Read More ›
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Photo: Nylon in a laboratory setting, by Superplus [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Adaptation in Action Yields a Repurposed Enzyme

“Nylon-eating bacteria? What the heck?” you say. “Why does this matter?” Read More ›
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Matti Leisola
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Sean McDowell: As an Introduction to Intelligent Design, Heretic Is a Top Pick

It’s surprising to reflect that no scientist up till now had fully shared his own experience in rethinking Darwinism. Read More ›
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How Biochemist Matti Leisola’s Lab Experience Persuaded Him of Intelligent Design

Leisola describes a humble example — the enzymes in washing powder we use in the laundry, with the ability to degrade proteins. Read More ›
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Matti Leisola
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Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, and the “Line of Despair”

Francis Schaeffer described what he called the “line of despair,” an assumption that faith and reason are separated from each other permanently. Read More ›
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Photo: Library shelves after an earthquake, by San José Public Library, via Flickr.

The Origin of Life: Correcting Common Mistakes on Thermodynamics

The driving tendencies in nature on the early Earth would have been analogous to seismic tremors rearranging the books in the library. Read More ›
Wonder of Water
Michael Denton

At Bridalveil Fall — Michael Denton on the Wonder of Water

Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. Read More ›
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An Extraterrestrial Spin on the RNA World

The authors argue that RNA molecules appeared in warm little ponds more than 4.17 billion years ago, transported by “meteorites and interplanetary dust particles." Read More ›

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