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New Online Homeschool Class Will Cover Chemistry — And Intelligent Design

I hasten to add that the course is being taught by my wife, Kristin Marais! The class will be a full two-semester course. Read More ›
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Appreciating Bird Mimicry and the Other Exceptional, Designed Talents

Let the reader enjoy the 350+ word vocabulary of Clover, alleged to be the best talking parrot in the world.  Read More ›
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Science for Insight or Science for Power?

What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of "knowledge as power" in the computer age. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity

If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value? Read More ›
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Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Read More ›
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How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›
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Watch: Jay Richards on the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

Eric Sammons is a personable interlocutor who realizes, by the end of the interview, that he was an intelligent design proponent all along without realizing it. Read More ›
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Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life

A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization. Read More ›
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When You Sync with Someone, Your Brains Wave Together

In research, neuroscientists have found that co-operation results in brain wave synchrony. Read More ›

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