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Studying Biology with System Engineering Principles

As a biologist, I’ve often wondered what the best way is to integrate engineering ideas in biology research. Read More ›
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Medicine’s “Sacred Space” — Grossly Violated

When my dad was dying, I saw both sides of the healthcare world, one that fought to save a life and the other that was coldly indifferent, even eager to end it.  Read More ›
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My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor 

It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Read More ›
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Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Read More ›
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Photo: Cancer cells, by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.

Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function

When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me. Read More ›
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To Address the Problem of Evil, Intelligent Design Is Better Situated than Darwinism

The questions I see coming into the Center for Science and Culture from our readers, friends, and supporters are thought-provoking. Read More ›
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Novel for Young Adults Highlights the Problem of Pain

For most people, the main issue in the debate pitting design versus Darwinism is not scientific, but the problem of pain. Read More ›
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On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Read More ›
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Eat or Be Eaten: Excerpt from New DI Press Novel for Young Adults

In science class, Mr. Charlie (as Isaac had to call him at school) preached Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection — survival of the fittest. Read More ›
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Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance: Peer-Reviewed Publications and ID 3.0

It’s a talking point for evolutionists that in the past two decades, intelligent design has stalled. Hardly! Read More ›

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