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Photo: A fruit fly, by Macroscopic Solutions, via Flickr (cropped).

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Phil Hearing via Unsplash.

Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Siim Sepp, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Applying the Design Filter to Biological Sands

If you look closely at beach sand, you may find some grains that stand out. They are shaped like spirals, stars, or striated cones. Read More ›
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Viruses: An Intelligent Design Perspective

Certainly, in a context of global anxiety, this is a subject that needs to be approached with sensitivity and humility. Read More ›
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What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life

It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life. Read More ›
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Before Natural Selection There Was, and Remains, a Mystery

Bradley and Marks offer an uncommonly clear discussion of the problem of the early Earth’s atmosphere, and why materialist theories stumble on the ancient rocks. Read More ›
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Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty. Read More ›

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