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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›
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COVID-19
Image: Fusion Medical Animation, via Unsplash.

Beauty, Coherence, Semiotics, and the Coronavirus — Webinar Series Continues Thursday

Purely physical explanations have difficulty in explaining the language-like features of communication between the coronavirus and a cell. Read More ›
Alexander Oparin
Photo: Bust of Alexander Oparin, Moscow, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

As the pioneering chemical evolutionary theorist Alexander Oparin put it, “The problem of the nature of life and the problem of its origin have become inseparable.” Read More ›
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The Evolution of the Eye, Demystified

Michael Behe in 2006 and Jonathan Wells in 2017 wrote about the irreducible complexity of the light-sensing cascade that makes vision possible. Read More ›
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40 Trillion Cells in Your Body, Each Poses a Mystery — Episode 2 of Secrets Series Is Now Up

“Except for guys like these, not everyone really understands what’s inside.” So says Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe. Read More ›
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Can Evolution Create Mind? Can We?

The arrival of humans on the scene of life is impossible to explain through unguided evolution alone, says Dr. Geoffrey Simmons. Read More ›
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Photo: An oak tree, by Abrget47j [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›
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Self-Induced Blindness: Round 3 with Kevin Williamson

Of course, an allergy to conceding error is not unique to ID opponents, but it is typical of them. Read More ›
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Photo: A gecko displays its superbly designed toes, by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?

A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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software
Photo credit: Gustas Brazaitis via Unsplash.

Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory

Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively. Read More ›

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