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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›
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Heretic
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Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›
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irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›
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New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Read More ›
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Study Challenges Evolutionary Relationship Between Flagellum and Type III Secretory System

There are various types of flagella, but all function like a rotary engine made by humans. Even non-ID scientists marvel at the complexity of these machines. Read More ›
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Cephalopods Join the Cambrian Explosion? And Other Topics in ID

If fossils from Newfoundland have been interpreted correctly by paleontologists at Heidelberg University, they give more worries to Darwinists. Read More ›
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Read More ›
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Photo: Tap dancing, Iowa State College, 1942, by Jack Delano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›
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Michael Behe: Battle of the Mousetraps

Behe used the common mousetrap to illustrate irreducible complexity, showing how various mechanical contrivances need all of their main parts to function. Read More ›

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