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Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin

Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Read More ›
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New Study: ERVs, Once Proclaimed as Ultimate Genetic “Junk,” Are Vital for Development

Endogenous retroviruses were at one time iconic for evolution activists. The debate has progressed a lot since then. Read More ›
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For Roe’s Anniversary, Renew Your Awe of Reproduction

How do those cells “know” what to become? Where does the information reside that shapes a human in the womb? Read More ›
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Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. Read More ›
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An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause. Read More ›
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The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›
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Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Read More ›
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The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome 

While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Read More ›

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