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Photo: Engulfed by a phagocyte, by Leena H. Bajrai, Samia Benamar, Esam I. Azhar, Catherine Robert, Anthony Levasseur, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola. Academic Editor: Eric O. Freed, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz.

Beautifully Engineered: Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for Intelligent Design

Dominic Halsmer describes signs of engineering he sees in nature, and explains some of the ways the universe appears strikingly bio-friendly. Read More ›
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Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?

Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.” Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Discovery Institute.

God Hypothesis: Stephen Meyer Answers Your Questions

Daniel Reeves emceed, and in his introductory conversation with Meyer the two discuss a tidbit about Meyer’s time at Cambridge when he was working on his PhD. Read More ›
RNA
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Darrel Falk Badly Mischaracterizes RNA World Experiments. . .and Stephen Meyer

Falk claims that Meyer misled his readers by not mentioning an allegedly significant newer result. Read More ›
Bible
Photo credit: Patrick Fore, via Unsplash.

Requesting a (Partial) Retraction from Darrel Falk and BioLogos

Why an avowedly Christian group would have its guns out for the God hypothesis is an interesting question from a psychological perspective. Read More ›
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Photo: PETA activists, by jvoves, via Flickr (cropped).

PETA Wrong Again: Milk Is Good for Your Heart

I have no complaint against people who refrain from consuming animal products. Making choices based on one’s moral view is an aspect of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Fredrik Linge, via Flickr (cropped).

Zip It: How Cells Repair Leaking Membranes

Membrane repair would have been necessary for the existence of the first cell. By what miracles did it arise? Read More ›
John Maynard Smith
Photo: John Maynard Smith, by Web of Stories, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Social Exclusion and the Evolution Debate

Social exclusion via refusal to engage is probably the most powerful and effective means of controlling the debate about origins within science. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Meyer: Is the Author of Nature’s Design Good? And Other Questions

We have an exceptionally woke Congregational church in the neighborhood that has a marquee out front whose contents I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy. Read More ›

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