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The Properties of Water Point to Intelligent Design

It becomes increasingly difficult to deny what Fred Hoyle called a “common sense interpretation of the facts.” Read More ›
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The Wonder of Sunlight: Appreciating the Remarkable Coincidences that Make Life Possible

It is easy to imagine a plethora of scenarios where, if our universe were just slightly different, photosynthesis could not take place. Read More ›
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›
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Emergence by Design

The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›
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How the “Other” ATP Synthase Saves the Planet

A lesser-known rotary engine within cells is responsible for a substantial portion of gases and nutrients that sustain the biosphere. Read More ›
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Topoisomerase Origins Defy Darwinian Explanations

A review of the topoisomerase family of molecular machines that repair DNA ignores where they came from. Another article tries but has no answers. Read More ›
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Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›
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Photo: Chloroplasts, by Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature’s Energy Mining Relies on Molecular Design

Plants mine energy from a primary source (sun) and transform that energy into a secondary source (sugar). Read More ›
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Informed Choice Seen in Cellular Nanomachines

As imaging techniques approach nanometer resolution, the detailed workings of molecular mechanisms reveal precision engineering designs. Read More ›

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