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Kalamunggay_(Moringa_oleifera),_Philippines

Try This Tree of Life Instead of Darwin’s

Take a look at a plant that takes nothing but gives everything. Why should it deliver so much good to so many? Read More ›
Foresight Eberlin
intelligent design
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With Three Nobel Endorsements, Chemist Marcos Eberlin Advances Case for Intelligent Design

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›
plants
Behe
Photo credit: CHU TAI via Unsplash.

Vindicated by Behe: Devolution Is Natural, Evolution Is Not

You do not need to study mutations for thirty years to predict that bombarding plant chromosomes with radiation will not lead to major agricultural advances. Read More ›
weeds
plant
Photo: A patch of weeds, by Erik-Jan Leusink via Unsplash.

Another Push for Plant “Rights”

There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›
golden rice
Photo: Benign Golden Rice is shown at the right, by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Don’t Let Anti-GMO Fanatics Thwart Improved Photosynthesis Crops

It is flat-out unreasoning — and in my view, anti-human. Read More ›
Grand Prismatic Spring
epigenetics
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, by Brocken Inaglory [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL].

Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

Scientists watched microbes inherit extreme acid resistance in Yellowstone hot springs not through genetics, but through epigenetics. Read More ›
Dickinsonia costata
junk science
Photo at top: Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran of Australia, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›
Photosynthesis

Watch: Biologist Michael Denton on Photosynthesis and Planetary Design

To fully grasp Denton’s thesis is to wipe clean the smear of dull complacency that materialism tirelessly spreads. Read More ›
Dickinsonia costata
junk science
Photo at top: Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran of Australia, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›
Santa_Maria_della_Steccata_Parma_-_Dome

New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›

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