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Biological Information Beyond DNA: The Bioelectric Code

Jonathan Wells explains how biological information is carried in the form of a bioelectric code, and how it differs from the information in DNA. Read More ›
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Biological Information Beyond DNA: The Sugar Code

Biologist Jonathan Wells discusses the “sugar code,” a non-DNA form of information that is determined by patterns of sugar molecules on membrane surfaces. Read More ›
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How Science and Faith Relate — Three Options

"Dialogue," in practice, can quickly devolve into a monologue where religion is supposed to sit down and shut up the moment there is a point of difference. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells: Biological Information Beyond DNA

Dr. Wells explaining why DNA information in an embryo can only do its job in the context of spatial information that is specified independently of it. Read More ›
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Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›
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Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life. Read More ›
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Dominic Halsmer: Aesthetic Arguments for Intelligent Design

How do modularity, specificity, adaptability, durability, and other aspects of engineering systems argue for design in nature? Read More ›
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“This Is Not Your Father’s Creationism”: Atheist Michael Shermer Meets Stephen Meyer

Every cosmology either has theistic implications, or ends up wrecking the basis for rational scientific investigation of nature. Read More ›
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Photo: Royal Society, entrance, by Tom Morris (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›
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spiral galaxy NGC 5037
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Beautifully Engineered: Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for Intelligent Design

Dominic Halsmer describes signs of engineering he sees in nature, and explains some of the ways the universe appears strikingly bio-friendly. Read More ›

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