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David Barash’s Proposal — Something Wicked This Way Comes

With a proposal for human/chimp hybrids, evolutionist David Barash vents his rage against religion. Read More ›
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Image: Condensin goes to work, by Delft University of Technology, screen shot via YouTube.

DNA as Architect as Well as Librarian: Structural Functions of the Double Helix

Early geneticists missed a lot when they looked at DNA only for its coding function. Read More ›
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Image credit: Nrets at en.wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia) [CC BY 2.5], from Wikimedia Commons.

This Didn’t Evolve a Few Mutations at a Time

Let’s have a look at an example: nerve cells and their action potential signals. Read More ›
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Photo: Actin filaments, by Howard Vindin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

More Secret Codes in “Junk DNA”

Scientists find the most interesting things when they suspect function in poorly understood parts of the genome. Read More ›
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Photo: Research monkey, by U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Daniel Phelps.

With Monkey Success, Cloned Human Baby Is Closer

The successful births came from DNA taken from fetal, not adult, cells. That is the usual course in this research. Read More ›
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Image at top: Kinesin at work in the cell, from "Kinesin: The Workhorse of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

ID’s Top Six — The Origin of Irreducibly Complex Molecular Machines

There is no known cause, other than intelligent design, that can produce machine-like structures with multiple interacting parts. Read More ›
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Internet of Cells: The Next Revolution?

Cells are connected in surprising ways that molecular biologists are just now beginning to understand. Read More ›
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In Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner Argues that Cognition Is Foundational to Life

The evidence of purpose and design permeate life at every level, and this evidence presents ever increasing challenges to all theories of undirected evolution. Read More ›
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Image: Cell mitosis in an onion root, by staticd (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›

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