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The Story to Which Biology, Considered Honestly, Must Lead

Perhaps the most arresting challenge to the materialist account of life is one that cannot be quantified at all. Read More ›
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The Story of Everything…or of Nothing?

The movie is respectful in how it addresses questions. It doesn’t preach. But it challenges perspectives at the heart of who we are. Read More ›
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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture

DNA is not a static sequence to read; it is a code that builds and operates its own factory. Read More ›
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Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

"A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator." Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›
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Iterations of Immortality

The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›
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Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›
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New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›
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Long Story Short — A Strikingly Unnatural Property of Biopolymers

Scientists have been trying for decades to get monomers to link up into biopolymers under “prebiotically plausible conditions.” Read More ›

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