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Photo at top: A scene from Science Uprising, Episode 3, “DNA Is Code: Who Coded It?.”

Seeking a Way Around RNA World, New Study Only Increases Perplexity of Abiogenesis

The origin of biological information is a mystery not so much highlighted by a comparison with software as downplayed by it. Read More ›
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DNA
Photo credit: Käpik [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cornelius Hunter: More “Junk” DNA Is Crucial

Evolutionary theory predicts lots of “Darwinian detritus” that does nothing for organisms. That prediction keeps coming up false. Read More ›
Christina Cheng
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Photo: Christina Cheng, University of Illinois, by L. Brian Stauffer, via EurekAlert!

Jerry Coyne, Ken Miller Revive a “Fishy Story”

Coyne is sure this is going to come as a rude shock, to our colleague and contributor Dr. Behe in particular, “a slap in the face of IDers like Michael Behe — a fish slap like the one below.” Read More ›
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Photo: Not really Charles Darwin (r.) but looks a bit like him if you unfocus your eyes, by Mr. Gray, via Flickr.

Failed Predictions Weekend: Hunter on Darwinian Evolution, the DNA Code, and More

Dr. Cornelius Hunter has more to say about 22 basic predictions of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Photo: California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica), a carnivorous plant, by Noah Elhardt, via Wikimedia Commons.

More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›
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Photo: Tree of Life, at Walt Disney World Resort, by KirkMoorePhoto [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›
Ford Model T and VW type 11 Luxus at the Vienna Technical Museum.
Ford Model T and VW type 11 Luxus at the Vienna Technical Museum.

I Believe in the Evolution of Life and the Evolution of Automobiles

We talk about the “evolution” of automobiles, yet we know there was design at every stage of this evolution. Read More ›
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Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism 

Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science. Read More ›
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Hunter: With Darwinism, “The Theory Is Always Driving the Ideas In Spite of the Evidence”

Mitochondria, the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells, pose a powerful and newly acute problem for evolution. Read More ›

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