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Paper in Cell Reports “Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”

This language is remarkable coming from a journal often considered the third most important in the world for biology. Read More ›
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Nose Knows Better than Darwinism; Design Logic Explains Why

"By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all." Read More ›
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“Expedience Bioethics” Busts Moral Limits

When embryonic research first started, we were told that there would be a strict 14-day limit on researching embryos in petri dishes. Read More ›
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Let’s Think About a Zygote Like an Engineer

Actually, life is a series of millions of hard problems that have to be solved all the time, or else. Read More ›
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From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›
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Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Read More ›
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The Best and Worst Heuristics for Biological Discovery

"We don’t know what this structure does, so it probably does nothing. Remember, evolution produces a lot of non-functional debris." Read More ›
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No, Intelligent Design Doesn’t Reason by Analogy; Here’s Why

We also see machines in living systems. That’s not to say that cells or living systems on the whole are “machines,” but they do contain machines. Read More ›
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Armed Forces in the Cell Keep DNA Healthy

Science reporters struggle for metaphors to describe the complex operations they see going on in the cell. Read More ›
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Zinc and the Miracle of Man

Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book. Read More ›

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