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Doctor’s Diary: Porcupine Quills and Other Examples of Nature’s Foresight

A newborn porcupine passes through its mother’s birth canal without causing her any injuries. How? Read More ›
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More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›
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Image: A traditional Tree of Life, via Wikimedia Commons.

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›
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For Selling Evolution, a Little Knowledge Is a Glorious Thing

Many Americans reject evolution, a recent paper suggests, because they’re uninformed.  Read More ›
Ford Model T and VW type 11 Luxus at the Vienna Technical Museum.
Ford Model T and VW type 11 Luxus at the Vienna Technical Museum.

I Believe in the Evolution of Life and the Evolution of Automobiles

We talk about the “evolution” of automobiles, yet we know there was design at every stage of this evolution. Read More ›
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Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Of Whales and Timescales

The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes. Read More ›
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“Convergent Evolution Is Even More Improbable than Evolution Itself”

Lee Spetner says of convergent evolution that it explains nothing but is simply a case of “giving a name to our ignorance.” Read More ›
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Photo: A gerbil; note the ears, via Wikipedia.

Mammals Compute Sound Timing in the Microsecond Range

Two ears provide the ability for mammals to tell the direction of sound, involving multiple finely tuned mechanisms. Read More ›

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