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Photo: A tornado, by Justin1569 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›
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Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible

Adami says, “it is hard not to see the parallels to other evolutionary innovations, for example the co-option of the existing crystallin protein in the eye.” Read More ›
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The Dynamic Dance of Salmonella enterica Flagella A Swirling Symphony of Bacterial Locomotion
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Has Dave Farina Refuted Behe and Me on the Bacterial Flagellum?

The use of machine language to describe biological systems is standard in the scientific literature. Read More ›
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How microservices enhance application modularity
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Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Read More ›
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The Story from Seattle: West Coast Premiere of Documentary Shines

The oldest girl said about the irreducibly complex motor of the bacterial flagellum, “We just learned about bacteria in school, but we didn’t learn that!” Read More ›
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A close up view of a fist punching towards the camera; an action packed flying fist with an animated colorful background; a clinching fist in detailed punching at the camera; blurred background
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Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

The more an environment is tuned to amplify probability, the more improbable that environment becomes, requiring further explanation. Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story for 2025: Optimization and “Evolution Before Our Eyes”

On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›
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Optimization: The Engineering Explanation for “Evolution Happening Before Our Eyes”

On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›
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Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft. Read More ›
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Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›

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