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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animations, archival footage, atheism, Carl Sagan, debate, documentary, Lawrence Krauss, narrator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, scholars, scientific atheists, scientists, smugness, sound, spokesmen, theism, video}

Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2026

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I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, allele sharing, butterflies, Chetone moth, common ancestry, common design, convergent evolution, deduction, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary tree, explanatory power, genes, genetic switches, genetic traits, Heliconius numata, inference, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Life’s Solution, moths, mutations, natural selection, paradigm, PLOS Biology, Richard Dawkins, Science Daily, Simon Conway Morris, technology, The Blind Watchmaker}

Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›

Sanger Sequencing. 3D illustration of a method of DNA sequencing.

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative reading frames, coding-sequence overlaps, codon-anticodon duplex formation, codons, constraints, DNA, fine-tuning, frameshifts, frozen accident, genetic code, Genome Research, hydrogen bond, hydrophobicity, mistranslation, nucleosomes, point mutations, protein sequences, purine, pyrimidines, random codes, RNA, specificity, splicing signals, translation, translation errors, tRNA, wobble position}

The Genetic Code: Two More Levels of Optimization

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 6, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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We have surveyed multiple levels at which the genetic code, far from a “frozen accident,” appears highly optimized across multiple independent constraints. Read More ›

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Date
May 5, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, big screen, Brian Bird, documentary, Eric Esau, Fathom Entertainment, filmgoers, Hugh Hewitt, Jay Richards, media, movies, Museum of the Bible, podcasts, Popcornmeter, premiere, Rotten Tomatoes, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, Washington}

Story of Everything Is Held Over in Theaters, and Gets Fabulous Washington, DC, Premiere

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May 5, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The Rotten Tomatoes site is giving it a 95 percent approval rating on the Popcornmeter. Do be sure to see it on the big screen while you have the opportunity. Read More ›

Male construction road worker holding a stop sign and directing traffic on the street. Traffic management

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 5, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative codes, amino acids, aspartic acid, biology, codon family, codons, deletions, frameshift, frameshift mutations, genetic code, genetics, glutamic acid, indels, insertions, intelligent design, mapping system, nucleotides, optimization, parameters, stop codons, translation, triplets}

Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 5, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 4, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, big screen, creation, faith and science, intelligent design, irony, physicists, PragerU, quantum cosmology, Shabbos Kestenbaum, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, streaming, The Story of Everything, theaters, transcendent mind}

Incoming Irony: Hawking’s “Own Work Pointed to Need for a Transcendent Mind”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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“Hawking’s own work in every way pointed to a creation event, and he spent a lot of the rest of his life trying to find a way around that." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 4, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, candidate, faith and science, immaterial mind, kids, philosophical systems, physical universe, PragerU, preexisting reality, scientific evidence, Shabbos Kestenbaum, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, Theological (podcast)}

Meyer: Who Created God? “That’s an Easy One.”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science

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The question is which underlying reality better explains the scientific evidence? Now memorize this for the next time your kids ask. Read More ›

DNA sequencing result, visualisation. Researches in genetics

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 4, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, anti-codon, BioSystems, codons, constraints, cysteine, degeneracy, error-impact, fine-tuning, frameshift mutations, genetic code, intelligent design, leucine, mutations, optimization, overlapping coding sequences, proteins, redundancy, Ribosome, RNA, triplets, tryptophan, tyrosine, wobble position}

Introducing the Remarkable Genetic Code

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 4, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The optimization of the genetic code for error minimization is made possible by the redundancy of the code. What is meant by redundancy? Read More ›

A brain with electric currents, 3D brain, A brain with lightning currents of electricity.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 4, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alex Hughes, Anna Stone, Anomalistic Psychology, BBC, BBC Science Focus, Chris French, consciousness theories, enhanced experience, fulfilment, Goldsmiths University, happiness, human consciousness, materialism, medical science, Michael Egnor, money, morality, near-death experiences, paranormal, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensory stimuli, The Immortal Mind}

Do Brain-Jolts Really Explain Near-Death Experiences?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 4, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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One change I have noticed recently is that science writers seem a bit more careful with the topic than they used to be. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 3, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, computer scientists, documentary, evidence, George D. Montañez, history of science, indifference, movies, stories, The Story of Everything, theaters, Theos Theory, vegetables, YouTube channels}

Montañez: Story of Everything Is “Delicious,” Not Like Eating Your Vegetables

_{David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Personally, I would have zero interest in a faith-based movie that preached at you. Read More ›