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Potamotrygon motoro
Photo: Potamotrygon motoro, a freshwater stingray, by Steven G. Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Researchers Teach Fish to “Do Math”?

Some test fish learned how to how to get food pellets but the difficulty, as so often, lies with interpretation. Read More ›
origin of life
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New Animated Video: Cell Membranes by Natural Processes Alone?

Cell membranes are essential for life because they actively maintain homeostasis, providing a consistent environment inside the cell. Read More ›
flagellum
irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Harvard Biophysicist Howard Berg, Flagellum’s Discoverer, Lives On

More than any other scientist, he brought to light the intricate biophysics occurring at the molecular scale in living organisms. Read More ›
Long Story Short
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Origin of Life: The Problem of Cell Membranes

Wow, the new Long Story Short video is out now, and I think it’s the best one yet — it’s amazingly clear and quite funny. Read More ›
Earth 1970
Earth 1970
Photo: Earth from space, April 22, 1970, by NASA.

WHO Demands Abortion at Any Time for Any Reason Throughout the World

Its newly published “Abortion Care Guideline” is the most radically pro-abortion official document ever published. Read More ›
Galápagos_finch
Photo: Galápagos finch, by Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jonathan Wells Battles Darwin’s Zombie Finches

Dr. Wells dissects some recent hype over Darwin’s finches, an icon of evolution that just won’t stay buried. Read More ›
Panpsychism
Image source: Mind Matters News.

A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Read More ›
Adam and Eve
First Couple
Image: Adam and Eve, by Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Luskin: Adam and Eve and the Evolving Scientific Consensus

Scientists have become much more reticent about saying the first couple must be no more than a product of the ancient Hebrew imagination. Read More ›
church
Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

First principles matter, and those of transhumanism and Christianity could not be more contradictory. Read More ›
Albert Einstein
Photo: Albert Einstein in 1921, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Does the Intelligibility of Nature Point to Design?

Albert Einstein famously remarked that “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…[t]he fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.” Read More ›

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