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Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other. Read More ›
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Photo: Skull of Centrosaurus, by Sainterx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?

There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully. Read More ›
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Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." 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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Rosenhouse’s Blunder: Another Nonsensical Mathematical Argument Against Intelligent Design

Darwinist mathematician Jason Rosenhouse uses the analogy of a coin toss to defend the Darwinian explanation. Read More ›
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Troubles with the Tree of Life

Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change. Read More ›
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Meyer: Theistic Implications of the Multiverse

"As for the Multiverse, even sci-fi writers now recognize that if such a thing exists, it would still require an ultimate Creator." Read More ›
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Photo: Telegraph operator, by Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Life, Not One Code but Many

It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code. Read More ›
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Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›
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Cell Fate: Another Hurdle for Evolution

When a stem cell divides, one daughter cell must maintain its stemness while the other specializes. Therein lies another truckload of requirements. Read More ›

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