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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 30, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, intelligent design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum}

No. 3 Story for 2025: Immaterial Genome Is Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

_{Ann Gauger
December 30, 2025

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Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
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, archetype, biological systems, biology, cold-spots, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, DNA, evolution, finches, fitness, Galápagos Islands, generalists, genetic variation, haplotype blocks, intelligent design, line, optimality, Pareto front, Pareto trajectory, Peter and Rosemary Grant, polytope, radiation, random mutations, randomness, specialists, systems biologists, trade-offs, triangle, Uppsala University, Uri Alon, Vilfredo Pareto}

Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story for 2025: Optimization and “Evolution Before Our Eyes”

_{Emily Reeves
December 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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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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Date
December 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, complexity, cooking, courage, diversity, evolution, evolutionary biology, fitness, food, holidays, inheritance, intelligent design, Interface Focus, Jerry Coyne, Michael Levin, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, parsimony, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, seafood, theoretical biology, Tufts University, variation}

Michael Levin: “Evolution by Natural Induction” (By What?)

_{Science & Culture
December 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Levin and his colleagues are unintimidated by those bullies who labor to forestall a crackup on the orthodox evolutionary team. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 22, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, biologists, biology, biomimicry, blood flow, brain, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Emily Reeves, engineering, Engineering Research Group, engineers, genetic variation, glycolysis, living systems, macroevolution, Michael Egnor, microevolution, modularity, optimality, pathology, physicians, physiology, Research, robustness, Stuart Burgess, systems engineering, Texas A&M, theory of biological design}

Year in Review: Demonstrating the Power of the Intelligent Design Framework in Biology

_{Brian Miller
December 22, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, biology, cells, censorship, Darwinists, DNA, dogmatism, Dover, evolutionary biologists, free speech, George Mason University, graduate students, intelligent design, Judge John Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, molecular machines, Ohio State University, peer-reviewed journals, Pennsylvania, persecution, pluralism, Smithsonian Institution, USA Today}

It’s Over in Dover, but Not for Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
December 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The more Darwinists resort to censorship and persecution, the clearer it will become that they are championing dogmatism, not science. Read More ›

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Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
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, animals, biologists, biology, chemists, clades, Current Biology, evolution, evolutionary theory, Flock of Dodos, hydrogen, physicists, Research, science journals, University College London}

Goodbye to a Basic Clade That Has Been with Us Since 1908?

_{Science & Culture
December 16, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

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It is hard — okay, impossible — to keep up with the number of frankly stunning revisions of core evolutionary theory these days. Read More ›

Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, assumptions, biology, Casey Luskin, complex biological features, cosmic fine-tuning, DNA, Elon Musk, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary models, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, orphan genes, peer-reviewed literature, population genetics, predictions, Research, Salvo Magazine, sugar code, Terrell Clemmons, Third Way of Evolution, Tree of Life}

Luskin: The State of the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Terrell Clemmons asked, "Where have you seen the ID movement make strides?" This is some of the material that I wish someone would share with Elon Musk. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, complementarity, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, dispositionalism, Edward Feser, emergence, Etienne Gilson, final causality, Günter Bechly, Lex Fridman, mathematics, metaphysics, Michael Levin, MIT Press, naturalism, necessity, ontology, origin of life, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, purpose, Richard Sternberg, science of purpose, specified irreducible complexity, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, Tufts University}

Science, Purpose, and Michael Levin: The Discussion Evolves

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A leading spiritually agnostic (at least, that is my impression) biology researcher, Michael Levin at Tufts, is himself a proponent of teleology in nature. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, biology, circuitry, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's tree, discontinuity, embryonic development, endowed by our creator, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary tree, function, natural selection, nature, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Chicago}

“Generative Entrenchment”: A Fundamental Problem for Darwin’s Tree

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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An “entity” may be so fundamental, so entrenched, arising so early in embryonic development, that it can't be toyed with by evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, engineering, evolution, False Messiah, function, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, intelligent design, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, reptiles, scales, sunflowers}

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws? Read More ›