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Drosera
Photo: Drosera, by Shiv's fotografia, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Beatriz Moisset, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

The evolutionary mechanism of natural selection selects for current function, not potential future function. Read More ›
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Photo: Short-beaked echidna, by Gunjan Pandey, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Homology

The spines of Australian echidnas and North American porcupines are remarkably similar. Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›
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Lesson from a Carnivorous Plant

The aquatic bladderwort lacks the charm of a rose, a lily, cherry blossoms, or many other plants you can think of, but it has something else to recommend it. Read More ›
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Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›
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Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa. Read More ›
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The Lovable Venus Flytrap: A Design Analysis

A correspondent sends along this remarkable nature video from the BBC and asks a good question. Read More ›
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More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›

Carnivorous Plants, and Why 0 Really Is Not Equal to 1

There is a little mathematics game that people sometimes play. You start with x=0, do some long, complicated algebraic manipulations, and end up with x=1. Read More ›

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