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A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›
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New Movie Reveals the “Hidden Hand Behind Our Universe”

A great deal of evidence indicates that the universe (space, time, matter, and energy) came into existence from nothing about 14 billion years ago. Read More ›
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Network Technology: Biology Does It Better

Our modern world surrounds us with hi-tech networks, but biology has had them since the beginning of life. Read More ›
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It Turns Out Disorder Is Functionally Important

Li Zhao of Rockefeller University is a leading investigator on the origin and function of orphan and taxonomically restricted genes (TRGs) and proteins. Read More ›
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Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›
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Rob Stadler on the “Low Confidence” Science of Darwinism

Across experiments involving bacteria and yeast, researchers found that while evolution can occasionally fix a single point mutation. Read More ›
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Active Matter: How Function Determines Structure

As always, the approach of naturalism is to reduce the complexity of natural phenomena to basic physical laws. Read More ›
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Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)

Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Read More ›
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Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch

Elephants can turn over a jeep and pull down a tree, but they can also pick up a potato chip without breaking it. Read More ›
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In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent

Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›

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