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Found: Oldest Evidence for an Organismal Magnetic Compass

The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old. Read More ›
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New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Read More ›
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Misinformation About a Masterpiece: An Engineer Responds to a Colleague

"We have the anatomy department claiming the human spine is a bad design, whilst the engineering department is improving bridge design by copying it!" Read More ›
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Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›
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The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”

The need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants. Read More ›
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“ID Takes Center Stage”: Brian Miller on the Meyer/Halper Debate

"Halper is one of the most formidable proponents of atheism, but he also admits that the discussion with Meyer was 'the toughest debate I’ve ever had.'" Read More ›
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The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Read More ›
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Lennox, Meyer, Tour, Robinson: The Science of Monotheism

The indefinite article is emphatically in the singular. In all those statements, there was only one beginning. Read More ›
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Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Read More ›
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Before Darwin, How Maxwell’s Intelligent Design Argument Forecast Modern ID

He was well versed in the evolutionary literature as well as in design arguments from antiquity to his day. Read More ›

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