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On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff

Tour issued his challenge in reply to the false claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›
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Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›
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Try to Write Instructions for a Femur; Go On, Just Try

Professor Behe invites us to join him for a sobering thought experiment: attempting to build an instruction manual for a human femur bone. 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.

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind? 

At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›
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New on YouTube: Michael Behe Unravels the Mystery of Biological Information — And the Marvel of Bones

The question posed by considering evolutionary theory versus intelligent design is whether a marvel like the femur could have arisen by chance-driven processes. Read More ›
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Photo: Mouse "embryo model," by Kasey Lau for the Zernicka-Goetz laboratory, via EurekAlert!

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›
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James Tour and Stephen Meyer Bring Clarity to Origin of Life Debate

“What is being simulated is the need for intelligent agency to move simple chemicals in a life-friendly direction,” says Meyer. Read More ›
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Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›
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More Scientific Problems with Paul Rimmer’s Views on Origin of Life

Naturally occurring self-organization is fundamentally different from the order in living systems. Read More ›

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