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

Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. 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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Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done

Some evolutionists still don’t get it. You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism. Read More ›
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Dragonflies Make the Most of a Tiny Brain

For an animal whose brain is the size of a pinhead, one would think its capabilities would be hopelessly limited. Not so. Read More ›
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Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life. Read More ›
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Applied Intelligent Design: Engineers Know Engineering When They See It

The adhesive properties of gecko toe pads, based on atomic van der Waals attraction, have been understood for years now. Read More ›
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Letter from San Diego: Science for Seminaries or Materialism for the Masses?

I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read More ›
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Photo: A gecko displays its superbly designed toes, by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?

A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›

Foundational Question: Is Biology Engineering?

Look at the photo at the top of this post, and ask yourself: What's the best-engineered object in view? Read More ›

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