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Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source
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Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Read More ›
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A Level Above: The Superiority of the Design Approach

"According to evolution, biology should be a level below human technology because evolution is constrained." Read More ›
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Mighty Darwin Has Struck Out: Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box

Most iconically of all, Behe gave us there the irreducibly complex bacterial flagellum. Right away, the flagellum hit the fan. Read More ›
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What Academics Actually Think: Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design

"One of the most encouraging things I’ve found in academia is how many people secretly support intelligent design." Read More ›
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Darwin Devolves (Again): Circular Thinking and the Debilitating Assumptions

"There is a reason why evolutionists focus on the human body as a prime example of bad design." Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: HIV Evolution

What Christoph Adami’s results actually show is that when HIV is subjected to the protease inhibitors, the sequence variability increases. Read More ›
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New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Read More ›
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Multi-Objective Optimization: Empty Criticism of Birth Biomechanics

An engineer would say that the female pelvis is the perfect compromise, the perfect size. Read More ›
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Mind Behind the Universe? A Stereotype About Scientists May Be Crumbling

Joel Kotkin points to a recent conference that brought together top engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to discuss the “new synergy.” Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Read More ›

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