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Adam and Eve
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Fox News Article Shows Why Evolutionary Solutions to Adam and Eve Fail to Satisfy

Is William Lane Craig’s book good news for Christians? I’m not so sure, and here’s one reason why. Read More ›
Area 51
Photo: Area 51, by X51 (Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/x51/ Web: http://x51.org/), CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biology as Reverse Engineering

An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51. Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Third Paper Presenting an Engineering Analysis of the Flagellum Makes the Case for Intelligent Design

A diagram in the paper — showing interactions in terms of engineering schematics — is unlike any description of the flagellum that I’ve seen. Read More ›
tornado
Photo: Photo: A tornado, near Elie, Manitoba, Canada, by Justin1569 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Read More ›
flagellum
irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Read More ›
octopus eye
Photo credit: Nathan Rupert, via Flickr (cropped).

Engineering-Based Models Better Explain the Pattern of Nature than Does Common Ancestry

Eyes with lenses are believed to have evolved independently multiple times, but all evolutionary scenarios face insurmountable barriers. Read More ›
Adam and Eve
First Couple
Image: Adam and Eve, by Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›
flagellum
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 ›
Darwin Tree
Image: Darwin’s Tree (1837), a sketch from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species, via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Tree-Like Data Refute Intelligent Design?

Computer scientist Winston Ewert applied the concept of “common design” to propose a “dependency graph” model of organismal relationships. Read More ›
Tesla factory
Tesla factory
Photo: Tesla factory, by Steve Jurvetson / CC BY.

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Short Answer

You don't have time to give a 30-minute answer outlining the different meanings of the word "evolution" and the evidence pro and con for each. Read More ›

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