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Creepy Crawly Complexity: Kate Kavanaugh on the Intelligent Design of Insects

Far from being mere nuisances, these creatures function as tiny engineers that elegantly solve complex problems to sustain global ecosystems. Read More ›
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For Darwinism, Here Is the Problem with Butterfly Mimicry

The usual explanation we hear is that the butterflies, spiders, plants, etc., “evolved this way in order to” survive predators. Read More ›
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Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›
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Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

The setting, once again in Colorado, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2024: Reagan’s Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

An untold story from the final year of Reagan’s Presidency about science, faith, and intelligent design. Read More ›
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Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Butterfly mimicry, by Antony Trivet, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record

The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained. Read More ›

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