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Douglas Axe
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Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
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An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
Photo: E. coli bacteria, living a better life, by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Read More ›
middle
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›
flagellum
Revolutionary
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From Darwinists, a Shift in Tone on Nanomachines

The shift in tone from then to now is remarkable. What happened to the awe these systems used to inspire? Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Get a Load of This Souped-Up Hyperdrive Magnetotactic Bacterium

"MO-1 is a magnetotactic bacterium capable of orienting its cell body along the geomagnetic field lines by using magnetosomes." Read More ›
Cambrian event
computer simulation
Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Unraveling the Myth that Undesigned Processes Generate Novel Functions

In short, the sequences performed no new function, so no new information was created. Read More ›
Protocells
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Origin of Life: Top Three Problems with Protocells

Protocells place origin-of-life researchers in an awkward position: relying upon an imaginary entity to sustain their belief that only matter and energy exist. Read More ›
E. coli
innovate
Photo: E. coli bacteria, by NIAID [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›

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