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David Coppedge

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In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Read More ›
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Say Goodbye to This Origin-of-Life “Get Out of Jail Free Card”

It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years. Read More ›
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“Design Strength on Multiple Levels”: More Ultimate Wiring with Stuart Burgess

The eye is one of the most striking embarrassing examples of claimed bad design by evolutionists. Read More ›
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Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception

The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Read More ›
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Discovering Interoception, the Body’s Internal Dialogue

The coordinated information exchange and irreducible complexity required for these systems to function suggest foresight and engineering. Read More ›
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New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Stubborn Icons: Peppered Moths and Miller-Urey Still Shambling Along

By now, you might think that the icons of evolution that Dr. Jonathan Wells wrote about 24 years ago have been put out of our misery. Read More ›
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Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›
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Missiles and Jackhammers: How Plants Spread Themselves Far and Wide

I welcome science reporter David Coppedge to explore some fascinating examples of intelligent design in the plant world. Read More ›
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In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures

Most people are familiar with George Washington Carver and his discoveries of multiple uses for the peanut. Read More ›

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