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In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet 

You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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René Descartes
Image: René Descartes, after Frans Hals, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›
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Image: Tetrahymena thermophila, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life

A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization. Read More ›
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Photo: Globular cluster NGC 6544, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Lewin, F. R. Ferraro.

Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters

One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe. Read More ›
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Photo: Martin Luther King, 1963, via Wikimedia Commons.

Martin Luther King on Intelligent Design

The era of great men and great women, with majestic and original visions, seems to be in the past. I struggle to think of a giant alive today. Can you? Read More ›
Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›
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Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?

The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms. Read More ›
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Zombie Science: Miller-Urey Experiment Is Back from the Dead, Barely

Scientifically speaking, the Miller experiment was a non-starter. Then when the atmosphere they used was called into question, the icon was doubly dead. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design, Now in Polish

My book includes a chapter on quantum mechanics, called “The Supernatural Element in Nature.” Read More ›
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Photo: Martin Luther King, 1963, via Wikimedia Commons.

Martin Luther King on Intelligent Design

This idea was crucial to his ethical vision. For more, see our brief and timely video, “Martin Luther King on the Design of the Universe.” Read More ›

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