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Darwin’s Black Box

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Photo: Pyrolobus fumarii, a species of archaea, by Manfred Rohde, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Irreducible Complexity” May Be Part of the Definition of Life

There are many bad counter-arguments to Michael Behe’s famous irreducible complexity conundrum, and (in my opinion) one pretty good one.  Read More ›
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A Secular Gay Agnostic Talks with Stephen Meyer

Why, by the way, do I tick off Moulton’s identities in the headline? I hate putting people into simplistic categories. Read More ›
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Synergies All the Way Down 

Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.  Read More ›
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Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›
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Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Read More ›
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Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›
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Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.” Read More ›
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Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum

Rope Kojonen wants to join “design and evolution,” but only by setting aside some of the main features of the flagellum. Read More ›
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
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An Argument from Ignorance? 

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›

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