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The Elements — An Independent Line of Evidence for Intelligent Design

Twenty elements — and water, too — appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Read More ›
Top 6 Evidence for Intelligent Design
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Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›
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Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms

What atheists and materialists can’t explain is why this fitness is so special, so unforgivingly precise and intricate, at every stage on the journey to us. Read More ›
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Finely Tuned Chemistry and ATP Synthase

Cellular life would be impossible if strong bonds weren’t just so for some cellular functions, and if weak bonds weren’t just so for others. Read More ›
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Is Fine-Tuning “More Extreme” in Biology or Cosmology?

As authors Thorvaldsen and Hössjer say, “Biology is inherently more complicated than the large-scale universe and so fine-tuning is even more a feature.” Read More ›
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Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›
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Fine-Tuning, Free Will — Now We’ve Got Two Challenges for Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

She acknowledges that she is speaking from outside one relevant field. Can you really use physics to deny free will while ignoring neuroscience? Read More ›
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Journal Finds It Can’t Keep a Good Pro-ID Paper Down

As a reader points out, the paper is the journal’s No. 1 most downloaded article, beating out several others in the Top 10 about Covid and related hot topics. Read More ›
Ghost Nebula
Ghost Nebula
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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified. Read More ›
glassy carbon
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Excerpt — The Chosen Atom

Many have believed (and many still do believe) that Darwin drove teleology out of biology forever. Read More ›

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