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mantid
Photo: Mantid may imitate a leaf or a flower to avoid being eaten, by Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Read More ›
ants
Photo credit: Maksim Shutov via Unsplash.

Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion

As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes. Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

New Book by Biologist Michael Denton on Nature’s Miraculous “Primal Blueprint”

To see cells in action, he notes a remarkable video, “Neutrophil Chasing Bacteria,” made in 1950s by a researcher at Vanderbilt University. Read More ›
Galaxy NGC 4907
Galaxy NGC 4907
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gregg.

Tour, Meyer on the Multiverse, and More

In this third of three episodes with Stephen Meyer, James Tour draws from questions sent in by listeners to his own podcast. Read More ›
mud
mud
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Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. Read More ›
water wire
Image: Water wire, by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, via Poul Petersen, Cornell University/EurekAlert!

Biophysicists Find Water Wires Are Biological Information Channels

Do the authors of the study think this is intelligently designed? They almost say so. Read More ›
masks
Photo credit: Mika Baumeister via Unsplash.

The Molecular Biology of Coronaviruses — Livestream Presentation Thursday

I will discuss the distinctive aspects of coronaviruses specifically, and review the outbreaks that have been caused by this family of viruses. Read More ›
medical research 2
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Darwinism Would Fare Poorly Against Pandemics

When combatting disease-causing pathogens, we don’t use the idea that Darwinian evolution is of unlimited creativity. Just the opposite! Read More ›
dragonfly
dragonfly
Photo credit: Dustin Humes, via Unsplash.

Optimized Insect Designs — via Evolution?

Cicadas and dragonflies use an exquisitely engineered “bed of nails” on their wings to disarm and neutralize bacteria. 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.

Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral

Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms. Read More ›

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