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Placebos Demonstrate Power of the Human Mind

When a disease affects the brain-body relationship, the placebo response can confound researchers. Read More ›
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Topoisomerase Origins Defy Darwinian Explanations

A review of the topoisomerase family of molecular machines that repair DNA ignores where they came from. Another article tries but has no answers. Read More ›
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›
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Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›
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Exploring a TEDx Talk that Argues Biology Is “Imperfect” with “Gigantic Mistakes”

Proponents of intelligent design would agree that biology is imperfect and biomedicine should be encouraged to cure diseases and fix problems. Read More ›
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Contingency Planning in the Cell Affirms Design

When sunlight is adequate, leaves are happy. On some days, though, there can be too much of a good thing. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Evolution Is Here!

As animator “Long Story” puts it in his video, the claim is an example of evolutionary equivocation”: “The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth.” Read More ›
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Foresight in Single Cells

There are things going on in cells that make sense only if a designing intelligence saw a need and planned for it in advance. Read More ›
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Measles “Hacking” the Body?

In previous articles I have discussed how biological organisms exhibit patterns that are highly analogous to computer programs written by humans. Read More ›

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