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Not Oparin’s Coacervates Again!

After Oparin’s coacervate theory was presented in the 1920s, it was dismissed as unworkable. Now, coacervates are back in style. Read More ›
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Teaching About Intelligent Design at Hong Kong Baptist University

Ironically, our students may have more intellectual freedom in China to pursue the truth than they would have in many universities in the United States. Read More ›
James Tour

On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell

Professor Tour is a personality to be reckoned with, pouring steely scorn on his colleagues who study, and mislead, about the origin of life. Read More ›
James Tour

On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell

Professor Tour is a personality to be reckoned with, pouring steely scorn on his colleagues who study, and mislead, about the origin of life. Read More ›
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Finally! Discovery Institute Press Books in Audio Versions

Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis helped turn Ben Shapiro, one of the smartest commentators out there, to Darwin skepticism. Read More ›
Douglas Axe
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Photo: Douglas Axe, in a scene from the series Science Uprising “DNA: The Programmer.”

New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?

To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way. Read More ›
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Photo: DNA researchers at work, by Fred W. Baker III via U.S. Department of Defense.

“Genes Out of Nothing”? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind

Researchers at Uppsala University describe the challenge they face — and that standard Darwinian processes had to face. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Behe Up Against the Sociology of Science

You could predict how the review would be written — not only that it would be negative but the precise ways in which it would also be spurious. Read More ›
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Orderly Disorder: A Molecular Motor Regulated by IDP

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are common in cells. Can a disordered protein regulate a molecular motor? Read More ›
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Photo: David Gelernter, by Doc Searls (Flickr: 2010_08_05_techonomy_154) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Yale’s David Gelernter: Darwin’s Doubt Is “One of the Most Important Books in a Generation”

He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science. Read More ›

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