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Sunlight on the Puzzle of Prebiotic RNA?

In two previous articles, I have argued against the plausibility of generating biologically relevant polymers (proteins, RNA, and DNA) in a prebiotic world. Read More ›
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Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem — Explained

The conclusion based on a mathematical analysis of self-replication is that asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, is getting way ahead of the game. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Read More ›
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No. 7 Story of 2023: Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›
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No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›
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Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Read More ›
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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