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Photo credit: Vidar Nordli-Mathisen via Unsplash.

Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body

Things you probably didn’t even know about should arouse awe as we go about our tasks each day, and sleep each night. Read More ›
Darwinizing Beauty

Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by permission of Dr. Swamidass.

Critic of Intelligent Design Acknowledges: “Bad Design” Arguments Don’t Work

It’s good to be able to report progress. Read More ›
sinuses
Photo credit (top): StewartENT, via Pixabay.

Nathan Lents Is Back; Still Wrong About Sinuses 

The interaction with Lents is of interest because it provides an opportunity to look again, in some detail, at a fascinating illustration of design in action. Read More ›
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Photo credit: TheDigitalArtist, via Pixabay.

You Can’t Climb a Mountain with Ostrich Legs

Compromises are driven by the limitations of a material world, but also by the vision that lies behind the design. Read More ›
Alice Roberts and Perfect Human
Photo: Alice Roberts meets the Perfect Human Body, via BBC Four (screen shot).

Just Try Evolving That!

I’d like to point out a few things to Dr. Alice Roberts. None of this is evolutionarily possible. Read More ›
Alice Roberts
Photo: The Perfect Human Body according to Alice Roberts, via BBC Four(screen shot).

The Perfect Human Body?

For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›
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Image: Bone structure of a human hand, by Henry Gray (1918), Anatomy of the Human Body, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The “Botched” Human Body, Revisited

As a systems architect, I’ve spent decades designing and implementing large and complex systems of information systems. Read More ›
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Your “Botched Body”: Bad Design or Bad Logic?

Whenever a complex system of systems works at all, it seems counterproductive to attempt a “bad design” argument. Read More ›
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Darwinist David Barash Wants Us to Create “Humanzees”

Readers may recall that Barash, of the University of Washington, is the hubristic materialist who intentionally tries to destroy the religious faith of his students. Read More ›

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