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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, biomolecules, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, Children of Light, cofactors, earth, enzymes, evolution, Forbes, galactic habitable zone, habitability, hydrogen, infrared radiation, Michael Denton, Moon, oxygen, photosynthesis, planets, radiation, unguided evolution}

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

_{Casey Luskin
June 30, 2021

Physical Sciences

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So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 20, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosphere, cosmic fine-tuning, faith, information, intelligent design, life, personal God, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Meyer: Why the Return of the God Hypothesis?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 20, 2021

Intelligent Design

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What is the “God hypothesis”? What happened to it, and when, so that it needed to stage a dramatic return? Read More ›

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Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, antibodies, bioRxiv, biosphere, Darwinian evolution, evolution, fish, homeostasis, intelligent design, Michael Behe, microbes, mutations, oceans, physiologists, plastic, PNAS, pollution, Saudi Arabia, sea turtles, The Edge of Evolution, waste products, Wired Magazine}

Plastic-Eating Microbes — “Rapid Evolution” May Not Be Darwinian at All

_{Science & Culture
September 17, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Environmental scientists warn frequently that the world is drowning in plastic. Here is some unexpected good news. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Botany
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, oxygen, pesticides, soil, water}

Getting to the Roots of Design

_{Science & Culture
February 27, 2020

Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›

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Date
February 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, biosphere, body heat, Bridalveil Fall, carbon dioxide, circulatory system, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Denton, minerals, nutrients, oxygen, rivers, rock, The Wonder of Water, water}

Wonder of Water: Michael Denton at Bridalveil Fall

_{Science & Culture
February 15, 2020

Intelligent Design

1}

Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 28, 2018

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", Africa, ballet, beauty, biosphere, birth, disease, ecosystem, evil, evolution, intelligent design, knowledge, music, mutations, natural selection, nature, pain, painting, pelvis, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, savannah, suffering, Venus}

Beauty as Evidence for Intelligent Design

_{Ann Gauger
June 28, 2018

Arts, Intelligent Design

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Beauty does not come from randomness. It is beauty, not ugliness that must be explained. Read More ›

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Date
November 13, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Arthur C. Clarke, Australia, biosphere, coincidences, earth, fire, ID the Future, life, Michael Denton, organisms, oxygen, ozone, photosynthesis, planet, podcast, The Wonder of Water, water}

Remarkable Coincidences in Photosynthesis

_{Science & Culture
November 13, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science

1}

From the specific energy of visible light to the unique properties of water, this degree of improbability screams DESIGN. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 9, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, Applied Mathematics Letters, biosphere, Darwin lobby, Darwinian evolution, disorder, Energy, entropy, Granville Sewell, In the Beginning, open system, Peter Urone, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Texas, William A. Dembski}

Digging Into Granville Sewell’s Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenging Darwinian Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
June 9, 2011

Evolution, Mathematics, Scientific Freedom

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Dr. Sewell is fully aware of the standard objections to the classical version of the second law argument, but his thesis is not the classic unsophisticated version of the argument. Read More ›