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Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
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Photo: General Sherman tree, by Jim Bahn / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms. Read More ›
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Video: Life Can’t Exist Without Repair Mechanisms, and That’s a Problem for Origin-of-Life Theories

Following the replication of DNA, a daily barrage of DNA damage occurs during normal operating conditions. Read More ›
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Photo: Leaf cells, by KarlGaff, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

An Astonishing Life-Friendly Coincidence: The Properties of the Nonmetal Atoms

It is well established that there are far more ways in which the universe might have been that are non-conducive to life than there are life-friendly ways. Read More ›
Hurricane Florence
Photo: Hurricane Florence, by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Deconstructing Belief in Evolution

A young biochemist suggested to me that hurricanes constitute an observable example of a natural artifact exhibiting complexity. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team.

Listen: Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”

Brierley talks with thinkers whom you don’t regularly see in direct dialogue, from Stephen Meyer to Denis Noble to Roger Penrose to Paul Davies. Read More ›
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Photo: Ancient gold pectoral pendant, from Panama, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Creative Commons License.

Metals: From Stars to Cells 

Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Read More ›
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Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.
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Was God a Bacterium? 

We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›
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Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›

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