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When Does Human Life Begin?

This argument used by abortion proponents — that an embryo or fetus is a part of the mother’s body until a certain point of gestation — is scientific nonsense. Read More ›
RNA
Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Did U of Tokyo Just Solve the Mystery of Life’s Origin?

Physicist Brian Miller explains that nothing remotely this dramatic occurred in the experiment. Read More ›
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Guillermo Gonzalez on What’s Changed Since The Privileged Planet?

One big change they note: the number of exo-planets discovered has exploded, from 200 or so to several thousand. Read More ›
fairies
Photo: Garden fairies, by helena.40proof, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Materialistic Models Accommodate the Scientific Data?

Would you believe someone who claimed that fairies and leprechauns were caught on video, but they are too small or too fast to be seen? Read More ›
Neutrophils
Photo: Neutrophils, by Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cell Fate: Another Hurdle for Evolution

When a stem cell divides, one daughter cell must maintain its stemness while the other specializes. Therein lies another truckload of requirements. Read More ›
Jupiter
Photo: Jupiter, Great Red Spot, by NASA/JPL.

William Dembski: Why Intelligent Design Matters

Atheists use mindless evolution to provide a God-free explanation for life and the universe. Intelligent design checks that move. Read More ›
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Does Intelligent Design Make Predictions or Retrodictions?

I would argue that a chronology of exactly what was predicted when is not dispositive as to whether a positive argument can be made. Read More ›
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Watch: Michael Behe Corrects Darwin’s Detour with a Cumulative Case for Intelligent Design

For thousands of years, the design of life was acknowledged by scientists and non-scientists, philosophers and physicians, religious and non-religious. Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Get a Load of This Souped-Up Hyperdrive Magnetotactic Bacterium

"MO-1 is a magnetotactic bacterium capable of orienting its cell body along the geomagnetic field lines by using magnetosomes." Read More ›

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