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John West
Photo: John West, by Chris Morgan.

The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer

"ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers." Read More ›
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Beneficial Borgs Have Landed

Borg theory represents a major paradigm shift about how genetic information is stored and shared. Read More ›
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Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Got These Bad Habits? Blame Neanderthals!

Neanderthal man, long extinct as a separate human group, now explains why we smoke and drink to excess… Read More ›
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Photo credit: U.S. Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Armed Forces in the Cell Keep DNA Healthy

Science reporters struggle for metaphors to describe the complex operations they see going on in the cell. Read More ›
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Photo: Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, by John G. West.

Darwinian Racism, Past and Present

John West discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, and Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution. Read More ›
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Image: Hexokinase, an enzyme; the original uploader was TimVickers at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
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An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Read More ›
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Image: Jeremy England lectures in Stockholm, via YouTube.

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Read More ›
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Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›

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