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Emily Reeves: The Systems Biology Revolution

A biochemist and metabolic nutritionist explains why the systems biology revolution is intelligent-design friendly. Read More ›
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Beneficial Borgs Have Landed

Borg theory represents a major paradigm shift about how genetic information is stored and shared. Read More ›
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Berlinski, Metaxas in NYC: What Is a Human Being?

The issues involved in the evolution debate derive their interest and importance largely from one question. Read More ›
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Photo: Undescribed putative angiosperm from the Crato Formation, by G. Bechly 2008.

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›
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Got These Bad Habits? Blame Neanderthals!

Neanderthal man, long extinct as a separate human group, now explains why we smoke and drink to excess… Read More ›
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Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer: Galaxy Formation, the Early Universe, and the Big Bang

The evidence for a cosmic beginning is stronger than ever, as is the God hypothesis that it supports. Read More ›
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Noncoding RNA Research Gaining Ground Over “Junk” Label

Perhaps it won’t be long before everyone, critics included, looks at the “junk DNA” concept in the rear-view mirror.  Read More ›
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Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?

Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong. Read More ›
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Photo: Stargazers, by David Coppedge.

Intelligent Design and Cosmic Fine-Tuning

In combination, the factors mentioned here and in my last two posts constrain the “cosmic habitable age” to narrower dimensions. Read More ›
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Photo: Geysers on Enceladus, via NASA.

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing 

Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Read More ›

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