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Photo: Molecubes, via Wikipedia.

Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication

All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them. Read More ›
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Answering the Divine Hiddenness Argument for Atheism

In my recent debate with Matt Dillahunty about the existence of God, Dillahunty invoked his favorite argument against God’s existence. Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk. Read More ›
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Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

Can New Proteins Evolve?

What enables a long chain of linked amino acids to perform highly specific molecular functions with machine-like precision? Read More ›
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Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Read More ›
Schistosoma mansoni
Photo: Schistosoma mansoni, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Read More ›
Haeckel's Embryos
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So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope

When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley. Read More ›
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Oxford Journal: “The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over ”

Since project ENCODE provoked outrage among evolutionary biologists over a decade ago, there has been a concerted campaign to defend the notion of junk DNA. Read More ›
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Meyer: No Escape from a Mind Behind the Universe

Cosmologists of an atheist disposition have been seeking an escape hatch from the implications of the Big Bang. Read More ›

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