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Image: Topoisomerase II, via Discovery Institute.

Yes, a “Host of Machines” Are at Work in the Cell

Here are more cellular machines to dazzle us with their moving parts and functions. Read More ›
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What Is It Like to Be a Spider? 

A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds. Read More ›
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Scientists Reveal Bacterial T4SS “Biogenesis Machinery”

With cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have zoomed in on a molecular machine that is very different from the Type III Secretion System. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›
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“Bacteria Are Incredible” — Here Are More Illustrations

Much of our plastic debris accumulates in the oceans where it collects in huge revolving garbage patches on the surface called gyres. Read More ›
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Wonderful Microbes Are the Planet’s Ecosystem Engineers

The few pathogens among bacteria give a bad rap to the majority that do wonderful things — for us and for our environment. Read More ›
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2022 YouTube Film Festival: Secrets of the Cell

Dr. Behe showcases bacteria with their own navigation systems, microbes that eat plastic waste, and microscopic bugs that shoot 60 molecular “bullets” a second. Read More ›
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone, by David Coppedge.

Transfer RNAs Wear Special Gear for Hot Water

As usual, evolution-talk is inversely proportional to the amount of detail presented about cellular workings. Read More ›
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›
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Watch: Michael Behe Corrects Darwin’s Detour with a Cumulative Case for Intelligent Design

For thousands of years, the design of life was acknowledged by scientists and non-scientists, philosophers and physicians, religious and non-religious. Read More ›

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