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Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design

Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded. Read More ›
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Photo: Mouse "embryo model," by Kasey Lau for the Zernicka-Goetz laboratory, via EurekAlert!

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›
Darwin's finches
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Is Evolution Taught Fairly in Textbooks? A High School Senior Investigates

Daniel Reeves speaks with a recent high school graduate named Natalie about her senior year research project. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
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Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Read More ›
DNA Structure
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James Tour and Stephen Meyer Bring Clarity to Origin of Life Debate

“What is being simulated is the need for intelligent agency to move simple chemicals in a life-friendly direction,” says Meyer. Read More ›
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New Online Homeschool Class Will Cover Chemistry — And Intelligent Design

I hasten to add that the course is being taught by my wife, Kristin Marais! The class will be a full two-semester course. Read More ›
clathrin cage
Photo: Clathrin cage, by Mazuraan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Read More ›
Tetrahymena thermophila
Image: Tetrahymena thermophila, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life

A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization. Read More ›
Cataglyphis fortis
Photo credit: Markus Knaden, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology.

Ants Build Landmarks for Navigation

The difficulty of finding your way back home from a long distance is partly solved in a tiny ant’s brain. Read More ›
photosynthesis
Photo credit: Kumiko SHIMIZU, via Unsplash.

Listen: Children of Light — and Water — With Michael Denton

The sun has a fantastic range of electromagnetic radiation, from high-energy gamma rays all the way to long wavelength radio waves. Read More ›

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