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Orgelian Specified Complexity

I have presented Orgel’s account of specified complexity so readers can decide which they prefer, Orgel’s or the one described in this series. Read More ›
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New Long Story Short — Life’s Ingenious Code

The video asks, “Where in your experience do things like language, proofreading, nanomachines, and information-rich code come from? You know the answer." Read More ›
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More Implausible Stories about Eye Evolution

Such accounts invoke the abrupt appearance of key features of advanced eyes including the lens, cornea, and iris. Read More ›
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Photo: Down House, home of Charles Darwin, by Mario Modesto [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Hamlet of Down House

Darwin began casting around in his mind for supplementary theories, sometimes going so far as to reconsider evolutionary thinking he had once firmly rejected. Read More ›
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Self-Replication? Not Even Close

Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.” Read More ›
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Evolution’s “Can’t Get There from Here” Problem

Scientists have experimented extensively on the classic lab animal, the fruit fly, mutating its genes in every way they can. Read More ›
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NASA Is Overselling Its Mars Perseverance Mission

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour, of Rice University, has shown the folly of NASA scientists and others in a number of videos. Read More ›
Radiolarian shells
Radiolarian shells
Image: Radiolarian shells, by Ernst Haeckel / Public domain.

Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

The unique powers of cells — their “demonic catalytic powers” — and their fitness to play their unique role as the building blocks of all life are a wonder. Read More ›
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DNA of Things: Embedding Machines with Replication Data

In 1901, divers brought up from an ancient shipwreck the first part of the Antikythera mechanism made by Greek inventors. Read More ›
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What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense? Read More ›

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