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Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›
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An Argument from Ignorance? 

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›
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Jason Rosenhouse and “Mathematical Proof”

Darwinists have always hidden behind the complexities of biological systems. As always, they assume no burden of proof. Read More ›
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The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics. Read More ›
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Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›
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Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Read More ›
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Fantastic Four: Marcos Eberlin Adds a Pillar to the Case for Intelligent Design

The ability to look ahead and foresee is no small matter, and even human beings can have trouble with it — as witness the supply chain problem. Read More ›

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