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Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer: Materialism’s “Wild West of Weirdo Explanations”

The multiverse theory, one target of Meyer’s book, does beg for a parodist’s touch, which it obtains here. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
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Just Down the Street from ID: “Molecular Assembly Index”

"The selection of one such possibility out of the combinatorically large number of possibilities is a process that requires information." Read More ›
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Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›
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Günter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, via Discovery Institute.

To an Italian ID Group, Günter Bechly Explains His Remarkable Journey

Having opened his mind to the possibility of design, Dr. Bechly saw it everywhere. Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.

Intelligent Design, Ahead of Its Time: More on W. E. Lönnig’s 1971 Thesis

In his youth, Dr. Lönnig bravely opposed dogma that was almost universally accepted and perilous to question. Read More ›
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red blood cells
Image credit: Red blood cells, Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

“Designed for [a] Purpose” — Heme Production Defeats Evolution

Hemoglobin is well known as the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood, but its precursor, heme, is lesser known. Read More ›
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embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Jonathan Wells: Biological Information Beyond DNA

Dr. Wells explaining why DNA information in an embryo can only do its job in the context of spatial information that is specified independently of it. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Crabs Think? Can Lobsters Feel?

What about shrimp? Their brains turn out to have memory and learning centers, which has triggered an evolution squabble. Read More ›
cactus
Photo credit: Sam Goodgame via Unsplash.

Handling Water Like Nature Does — By Intelligent Design

Here in the Pacific Northwest we are heading into a possibly historic heatwave. Water is on everyone's mind. Nature beautifully anticipated our needs. Read More ›

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