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New High School CHEMISTRY Course This Fall from Discovery Institute Academy

As teacher Kristin Marais emphasizes, “That’s what chemistry is all about: we want to see things.” Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course

How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism? Read More ›
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Big Ben
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Compasses, Clocks — Intelligent Design in Time

The design inference can be used on static objects, but all the more on processes that move in space and time. Read More ›
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Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›
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Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Read More ›
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Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design

Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide. Read More ›
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Meyer, Shermer, Callen: “Can Science Find God?”

A key moment is when host Bryan Callen asks the classic “Who designed the designer?” question. Read More ›
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Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Design

I had the privilege of speaking on intelligence metrics. Here are my slides. I hope soon to develop this talk into a proper peer-reviewed paper. Read More ›
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Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›

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