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Reading Between the Lines: Intelligent Design in Philip Ball’s Non-ID Book

Ball, in describing this new biology, feels the need to appeal to design language despite his overt disavowal of any support for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies — A Report from CELS

The cherished evolutionary story of whales' “vestigial” pelvic bones joins the growing pile of discredited icons of evolution. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem — Explained

The conclusion based on a mathematical analysis of self-replication is that asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, is getting way ahead of the game. Read More ›
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Listen: David Berlinski on Chickens, Eggs, Human Exceptionalism, and a Revolution

Dr. Berlinski explores a chicken-and-egg problem facing origin-of-life research, and a blindness afflicting some evolutionists focused on human origins. Read More ›
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For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”

Evolutionary biologists tend to silently glide over such issues, which clearly point to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Read More ›
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Long Story Short — A Strikingly Unnatural Property of Biopolymers

Scientists have been trying for decades to get monomers to link up into biopolymers under “prebiotically plausible conditions.” Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›
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Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem

There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing solution for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out. Read More ›
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Histone Code: A Challenge to Evolution, an Inference to Design

Histones are responsible for organizing and packaging the DNA of a cell nucleus into structural units known as nucleosomes. Read More ›

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