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Mama Bear: Melissa Travis on Parenting, Education, and the Reasons 2019 Conference

Professor Travis has made it her mission to help parents — especially mothers — navigate tough questions about origins and beliefs. Read More ›
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Photo: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, by Adam Baker, via Flickr.

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2018: It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, in a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Behe’s Irreducible Complexity Validated by Chemistry Nobel

Darwinist Jerry Coyne misunderstands design science. Intelligent design is two scientific inferences. Read More ›
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Photo: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate, by Oregon State University via Flickr (cropped).

Intelligent Design Wins Another Nobel Prize

The design inference is obvious but often implicit, because explicit acknowledgement of design in biology carries with it substantial career risk. Read More ›
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Word Games with Evolutionists

Coming from the National Center for Science Education or the New York Times, this is typical. Read More ›
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Photo: Nobel Prize, by Adam Baker, via Flickr (cropped).

It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›
Frances Arnold
Photo: France Arnold, via Caltech (press release).

How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›
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Photo: Frances Arnold, Caltech, by Beavercheme [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›
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Image source: “ATP Synthase: The power plant of the cell,” via Discovery Institute.

Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve?

Darwinian evolution, even in its 21st-century form, fails the formidable task of explaining how the first enzyme arose. Read More ›
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Image: Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (1887), by Viktor Vasnetsov [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Protein Folding and the Four Horsemen of the Axocalypse

A recent series of critiques, published by the online journal Sapientia, was aimed at Doug Axe’s book, Undeniable. Read More ›

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