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Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›
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NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious,” Says Dr. Egnor

If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear? Read More ›
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Brian Miller: The Blur at the Edges, Versus the Blur Everywhere

Evidence for intelligent design in nature may be clear to you, while other matters relating to faith remain far more perplexing. Read More ›
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Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. Read More ›
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Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Read More ›
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Behe’s Bombshell, Thirty Years Later

Back in the 1990s, scientists were just starting to discover that virtually all cellular processes were powered by molecular machines. Read More ›
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Restoring Our Vision: Michael Behe and Darwin’s Black Box

What has always stirred me with a deep set of conflicting emotions is his reference to the “elephant in the room.”  Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: The Definition of Information

Whether the driveway is wet provides information about whether it rained. If the driveway is dry, it certainly has not rained. Read More ›
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McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›

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