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Tomorrow: New Science Uprising Episode on Human Origins

A view open to intelligent design can follow the evidence freely. It does not require a particular narrative of how humanity arose. Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk. Read More ›
ATP Synthase
Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

Can New Proteins Evolve?

What enables a long chain of linked amino acids to perform highly specific molecular functions with machine-like precision? Read More ›
Schistosoma mansoni
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Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Read More ›
Haeckel's Embryos
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So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope

When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley. Read More ›
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Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science

Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point. Read More ›
fruit fly
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Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›
Laridae
Photo: Gulls of the family Laridae, by Oleg Bor, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Read More ›
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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