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Clifton Suspension Bridge
Photo: Clifton Suspension Bridge, by Nic Trott, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tricks of the Cell Trade

Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains. Read More ›
LambdaPlaques
Photo: "Lysis plaques of lambda phage on E. coli bacteria," via Wikimedia Commons.

Why This Virus Is No Threat to Intelligent Design

A journal article suggests that an impressive instance of unguided evolution has been directly witnessed. Read More ›
diatom
Photo credit: CSIRO, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals. Read More ›
desert varnish
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Living Murals: Wall Art Made by Photosynthetic Bacteria

Long suspected to be biological in origin, desert varnish is confirmed to be the product of light-gathering microbes that concentrate manganese as sunscreen. Read More ›
Secrets Behe Episode 3
Photo: Michael Behe, via Discovery Institute.

Michael Behe Needs Some Angelic Help

Become a movie producer and help bring the evidence of intelligent design to millions of people in the next year. Read More ›
genie
Image credit: simisi1 via Pixabay.

Darwin’s Genie: Misapplied Natural Selection Continues

“Natural selection” is like a Swiss Army knife that researchers in widely different disciplines use to solve their problems. Read More ›
Richard Lenski
Photo: Richard Lenski, via Veritasium (screen shot).

Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution

Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.” Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
whale skeleton
Photo credit: t4berlin, via Pixabay.

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Read More ›
CELS
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›

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