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Linus Pauling
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 ›
Nobel Prize
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 ›
Milky Way
Photo: Milky Way, by Free-Photos, via Pixabay.

Updating the Drake Equation

The Drake equation is simply the product of a set of factors, estimating the number of active, technologically advanced, communicating civilizations in our galaxy. Read More ›
Seattle ID Edu Day
Photo: ID Education Day in Seattle.

This Year’s ID Education Days Were a Smash Success

Many high school students are eager to go beyond the brief and airbrushed presentation of evolutionary theory found in their biology textbooks, and are full of questions. Read More ›
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Photo: Cauliflower, by Couleur, via Pixabay.

Biologist Scott Turner: What Is Life? And Other Simple Questions

The picture of life that biologist Scott Turner sketches in his recent book is remarkable, and not easy to fully take aboard in your mind. Read More ›

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