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Biologist P. Z. Meyers Denies That Life Begins at Conception

Obviously, life begins at conception. With the fusion of the sperm and the egg, a new human life begins. Read More ›
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lightning
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The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding

Imaging techniques down to the picometer scale are permitting detection of previously unknown alliances of cellular software with electrostatics and mechanics. Read More ›
topoisomerase
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Yes, a “Host of Machines” Are at Work in the Cell

Here are more cellular machines to dazzle us with their moving parts and functions. Read More ›
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Denis Noble
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›
Mammoth
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Mammoth Support for Devolution

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›
Meyer Thaxton
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From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›
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Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›
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Energy Harnessing and Blind Faith in Natural Selection

The latest animated video from Long Story Short explains the complex requirements for energy harnessing in life. Read More ›
ATP Synthase
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If Nanomotors Are Designed, Why Not Biomotors?

Physical chemists are justifiably proud of their tiny motors that do little more than spin. How can they say that much more complex motors in life evolved? Read More ›
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Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design

Philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of the famous scientist and science popularizer. Read More ›

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