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#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Read More ›
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#6 Story of 2021: Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer Asks: What Is Intelligent Design?

Follow the science! It demonstrates that the digitally encoded information in DNA, like all such information, could have arisen from only one source. Read More ›
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling

If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice. Read More ›
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Great Christmas Gift — Proofs of God Translates Design Arguments for Young Students, Teenagers

Sometimes the best way to learn is when you’re having fun and don’t even realize that you’re learning. Read More ›
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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias

Future scientists are taught to interpret the world through a rigid conceptual grid. Read More ›
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Nothing New Under the Sun

The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›
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What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Read More ›
DNA
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Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›

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