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rock
Photo: Bronzitite, by Kevin Walsh, via Flickr.

Humble Beauty: Design in Rock Thin Sections, and More

Just imagine — in something as humble as a rock. Could, in fact, anything be humbler, more readily scorned until you look a little closer? Read More ›
engineering
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›
fish
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How Engineers Helped Save Biology from Evolutionary Theory

Design motifs such as four-bar linkages and control systems must meet exacting requirements whether implemented in a space shuttle or a fish. Read More ›
knee
Image: Human knee, by Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›
dart and target
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The Return of Teleology to Biology

Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›
DNA
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Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Read More ›
multiverse
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The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›
DNA
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What Biologists Can Learn from Engineers, and Vice Versa

If biologists had thought more like engineers, stumbling into the myth of "Junk DNA" might have been avoided. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson
Photo: Paul Nelson, by Nathan Jacobson.

Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?

An “engineering theory of evolution” might be one way of expressing what the ID proponents who participated in the CELS event were seeking. Read More ›

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